Clinical trial NCT03740269: Oral Health Educational Program for Knowledge,Attitude,Practice of Oral Health Among Agroup of Egyptian School Girls
Official title: Oral Health Educational Program for Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Oral Health Among a Group of Egyptian School Girls in Ras Sedr - South Sinai
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Keywords: oral health education
oral health promotion
oral health education program
oral hygiene status
knowledge,attitude,practice
oral health knowledge,attitude,practice
oral hygiene knowledge,attitude,practice
knowledge,attitude,practice oral health
knowledge,attitude,practice oral hygiene
KAP
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-11-14
Enrollment: 300
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: consecutive convenient sampling recruiting all girls attending the school in that day

Brief summary: This study will demonstrate oral health educational program to egyptian school girls age from 12-14 years old to evaluate the change in the knowledge, attitude and practice of oral health

Detailed description: According to World Dental Federation 2017 oral health is defined as multi-faceted and include the ability to speak, smile, smell, taste, chew, swallow, and convey a range of emotions through facial expressions with confidence and without pain, discomfort, and disease of the craniofacial complex .Oral disease constitute a significant public health problem in developing countries due to their high prevalence, economic consequence and negative impact on the quality of the life of affected individual.

Estrogen cause change in the blood vessels and progesterone stimulate the production of inflammatory mediators which lead to increase of gingival inflammation appear as gingival enlargement, increase in gingival bleeding and crevicular fluid flow and microbial changes.

The oral health education is important tool to make the primary level of prevention. So the benefits from health education is to improve knowledge and awareness of children which results on developing favorable oral behavior and so favorable oral health status.

.As the school is consider a place for gathering large number of children so it is ideal place for conducing successful health education.

this study will Identify baseline oral hygiene knowledge, attitude and practice among 12-14 years old school children. then Record oral hygiene status by oral hygiene index simplified after that assess the effectiveness of oral health education in modifying oral health knowledge, attitude and practice

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* girls age 12 - 14 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

* refusal to participate in the research

Primary outcomes:
measure: knowledge, attitude and practice of oral health
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: oral hygiene index simplified
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: center of evidence based dentistry
name: hassan ahmed
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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