Clinical trial NCT03947203: Oral Health Promotion: Youth as Agents Of Change
Official title: Oral Health Promotion: Youth as Agents Of Change
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Oral Hygiene
Lead sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: DentaQuest Institute, Inc.
First posted: 2019-05-13
Enrollment: 0
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: This upstream communication study may aid in our understanding of the nature of the parent-adolescent relationship and how we can use this relationship to promote better oral health of the parents and adolescents.

Detailed description: Given the proliferation of social media as a tool for health communication, this proposed pilot study will be conducted with adolescents and their parents in the greater Richmond area, including Petersburg, and examines whether disseminating oral health information to adolescents via Facebook will have a greater impact on their sharing of the message to their parents than providing them the information in written format- using a pamphlet. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook arm of the intervention will be more likely to report receiving the oral health message from their child than those in the pamphlet arm. Further, this study investigates whether parents whose adolescents re provided the information via Facebook will have greater increase in intent to schedule dental appointments and dental appointment scheduling behaviors than parents whose children are in the pamphlet group. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook group will report greater increase in dental appointment scheduling than those whose adolescents are in the pamphlet group. Lastly, we would like to explore whether parents and adolescents in the Facebook arm will have greater increase in oral health knowledge and greater decreases in perceived barriers to oral health activities, both which may be related to increases in parents' dental appointment scheduling.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* enrolled in grades 7 through 12
* between the ages of 12 and 18
* currently living in the same household as their legal guardian(s) who agree to participate in this study
* live in the greater Richmond and Petersburg area
* uses a smartphone
* has not had a dental appointment in the past 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* not between the ages of 12 and 18
* do not live with their legal guardian (s)
* are not residents of the greater Richmond and Petersburg area
* have had a dental appointment in the past six months
* legal guardian does not agree to participate

Primary outcomes:
measure: Communication
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Appointment - child
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Appointment - adult
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Oral health knowledge
timeFrame: Baseline to 8 weeks
measure: Perceived barriers
timeFrame: Baseline to 8 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
name: Maghboobah Mosavel, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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