- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04140929
Oral Health Improvement for Nursing Home Residents Through Delegated Remotivation and Reinstruction (MundZaRR)
Oral Health Improvement for Nursing Home Residents Through Delegated Remotivation and Reinstruction - a Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial
Study Overview
Status
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Introduction: Oral health and oral-health-associated quality-of-life (OHrQL) of residents in German nursing homes are poor. The investigators will develop an evidence-based catalogue of interventions applicable and sustainable ("Oral Health Tool Box"). Based on this, care-accompanying reinstruction and remotivation of nursing staff by dental assistants (DA) will be provided. The investigators hypothesize such complex intervention to significantly improve OHrQL, and daily oral hygiene/care behaviour and its cost-effectiveness.
Methods and analysis: Based on the findings of a rapid systematic review, possible intervention components will be systematized and assessed for their effectiveness. Mixed methods will be used to identify barriers and enablers of oral hygiene and care in German long-term residential care (LRC), and these will be linked with the intervention components using the Theoretical Domains Framework and the Behavior Change Wheel, the result being an "Oral Health Tool Box". A two-arm cluster, randomized-controlled-trial (ratio of 1:1 via block randomization) will be performed in nursing homes in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, including residents with moderate to severe care dependency. Each nursing home represents a cluster. Based on a feasibility study, considering clustering and possible attrition, the investigators aim at recruiting 618 residents of 18 cluster. In the intervention group, dentists will identify the specific problems of each resident, and assign one or more intervention components from the box. During follow-up, nursing staff will be reinstructed and remotivated by dental assistants in how to deliver the intervention components in individual intervals. In the control group residents will receive care as usual. The primary outcome, OHrQL, will be measured using the German version of the General Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI). Secondary outcomes include pain condition, general health-related quality-of-life, caries increment, oral/prothetic hygiene and gingival status, incidence of dental emergencies and hospitalizations, and cost-utility/effectiveness. The endpoints will be measured at baseline and after 12 months. For the primary outcome, a mixed-linear model will be used within an intention-to-treat analysis. A process evaluation using mixed methods will be conducted alongside the trial.
Due to the pandemic, the number of cases could not be reached despite outstanding commitment in recruitment. An application was made to the funding agency to adapt the project plan.
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Katrin Hertrampf, Prof. Dr.
- Phone Number: +49 43150026113
- Email: hertrampf@mkg.uni-kiel.de
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Falk Schwendicke, Prof. Dr.
- Phone Number: +49 30450662556
- Email: falk.schwendicke@charite.de
Study Locations
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Kiel, Germany
- Recruiting
- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
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Contact:
- Katrin Hertrampf, Prof. Dr.
- Phone Number: +4943126113
- Email: hertrampf@mkg.uni-kiel.de
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Nursing homes without an existing dental cooperation agreement. Eligible are residents with a degree of care dependency of 3 to 5 (moderate to severe) as rated by an expert rater of the German statutory health insurance.
Exclusion Criteria:
- lack of consent (of the home management and/or the residents or their proxies or legal guardians) and residents in respite carer
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
- Allocation: RANDOMIZED
- Interventional Model: PARALLEL
- Masking: SINGLE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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EXPERIMENTAL: Intervention group
In the intervention group, a range of clinical parameters are recorded and the dentists prepares an individual oral hygiene and care recommendation, based on the Oral Health Tool Box.
The Box is also used for instructing the dental assistants and the nursing staff for each patient individually.
It is then determined when and how the dental assistants re-evaluates the oral hygiene and care process and reinstructs and remotivates the nursing staff.
If the examination reveals a need for dental treatment (possibly requiring referral and transport), this will be communicated to the nursing staff.
The dental assistant will further receive a training in communication, enabling them in reinstruction and remotivation.
Dentists and dental assistants will further receive a training in geriatric dentistry by the State Commissioner of the German Society for Geriatric Dentistry.
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Please see, description of the intervention group
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NO_INTERVENTION: Control group
In the control group, the residents receive care as usual.
This includes the recording of the same parameters are recorded as in intervention group, a standardized form is filled out and handed over to the nursing staff.
As in the case of Intervention group, the nursing staff is informed in the event of a need for treatment.
No further measures are applied.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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General Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI)
Time Frame: 12 months
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The GOHAI is an established instrument for measuring oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in older people.
It comprises twelve items in four domains (functional limitations, pain/discomfort, psychological aspects, behavioral aspects), which are recorded ordinally scaled from 0 (never true) to 5 (always true).
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12 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Pain scale
Time Frame: 12 months
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Measurement of actual pain by scale (1-10), 1 -least pain, 10-most pain
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12 months
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European Group Quality of life-5 Dimenions-5 Levels (EQ-5D-5L)
Time Frame: 12 months
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Health-related quality of life
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12 months
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Decayed-Missing-Filled-Teeth (DMFT)
Time Frame: 12 months
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Caries experience/tooth loss, measured with Decayed-Missing-Filled Teeth,and root caries lesions
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12 months
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Geriatric Debris Index (GDI-S)
Time Frame: 12 months
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Oral hygiene status
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12 months
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Periodonal Sulcus Index (PSI)
Time Frame: 12 months
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gingival inflammation
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12 months
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Denture Hygiene Index
Time Frame: 12 months
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Prosthetic hygiene
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12 months
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Health economic analysis
Time Frame: 12 months
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Incidence of dental-associated emergencies and hospitalisations.
Nursing,dental and inpatient treatment costs
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12 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Publications and helpful links
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (ACTUAL)
Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (ACTUAL)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- 01VSF18021
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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