The Impact of School Teachers in Care Navigation and Signposting Dental Caries in Primary School Children

The Impact of School Teachers in Care Navigation and Signposting Dental Caries

The study aims to investigate the role of school teachers in care navigation and signposting dental caries in primary school children.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Dental Caries in Children
• Intervention / Treatment: Diagnostic test: Signpost caries

Detailed Description

Dental caries is a multifactorial disease with high prevalence in children. Dental caries is a global public health problem with detrimental impact in developing countries. Despite advances in caries management and detection poorer countries continue to suffer a high burden of disease. Advances in care navigation and sign-posting concepts are increasingly being utilized in general health care to aid early diagnosis and ease the burden of disease in poorer communities. This study aims to investigate the role of primary school teachers as care navigators with regard to dental caries in children.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 307
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Sudan
  • Khartoum, Sudan, 11111
    • Khartoum Centre for Research and Medical Training

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 5 years to 8 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Healthy school children between the ages of 5-8 years Regular school attender Lives in the local village Co-operative

Exclusion Criteria:

• known medical history or disability
• irregular school attenders

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Care Navigation group; The teachers will signpost dental caries based on ICCMS visual criteria and refer to the nearest service. Annual monitoring of caries	Diagnostic test: Signpost caries; Identify carious lesion according to ICCMS visual criteria; Other Names: signpost dental caries
No Intervention: No internvention; Caries experience (dmft) activity monitored annually

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
untreated caries increment	decay component of the Index of decayed, extracted and filled teeth for the groups (deft)	36 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
caries experience (deft)	deft index (for entire group)	36 months
caries experience for the most affected one third (SIC index)	SIC index (deft of the most affected one third of each group)	36 months
care index	proportion of filled and extracted teeth (df/deft)	36 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Khartoum Centre for Research and Medical Training

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 19, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 20, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): March 11, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 25, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 25, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): June 30, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 15, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 11, 2021
• Last Verified: July 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Stomatognathic Diseases; Tooth Demineralization; Tooth Diseases; Dental Caries
• Other Study ID Numbers: Khrt02

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No