Clinical trial NCT06489054: Effects of Peer-based Education on Adolescent Oral Health Literacy
Official title: Effects of a Peer-based Educational Project on Adolescents' Oral Health Literacy
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Literacy
Keywords: Health Education, Dental
Adolescent
Lead sponsor: University of Sao Paulo
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-07-05
Enrollment: 360
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 15
Maximum age (years): 19
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Experimental group and control group
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This project aims to identify whether an oral health peer education strategy can influence the level of functional literacy and oral health attitudes of adolescents aged 15 to 19 years. An experimental study will be carried out, a non-randomized controlled community trial, with two groups of educational strategy in oral health: peer education (experimental group) and conventional education (control group). For data collection, three questionnaires will be applied: for socioeconomic, demographic and dental data; assessment of oral health literacy (BOHL-AQ); and assessment of oral health attitudes; the last two being applied before and after the intervention.

Detailed description: This project aims to identify whether an oral health peer education strategy can influence the level of functional literacy and oral health attitudes of adolescents aged 15 to 19 years. An experimental study will be carried out, a non-randomized controlled community trial, carried out in the municipality of Araruna-PB, with two groups of educational strategy in oral health: peer education (experimental group) and conventional education (control group). For data collection, three questionnaires will be applied: for socioeconomic, demographic and dental data; assessment of oral health literacy (BOHL-AQ); and assessment of oral health attitudes; the last two being applied before and after the intervention. Descriptive analysis will be performed and a test will be applied to assess the normality of the data. The psychometric properties of the BOHL-AQ with adolescents will be evaluated using factor analysis. For literacy and attitude data, a comparison of means before and after the intervention will be performed using the intragroup paired and unpaired Student t test. All analyzes will be performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 25.0, considering a significance level of p \< 0.05.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adolescents aged 15 to 19 years old, who obtain consent from their parents/guardians (for those under 18 years of age), voluntarily accept to participate in the study and are present on the day the questionnaires are administered.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Adolescents with physical and/or mental disabilities that make it impossible to follow the activities proposed in the intervention and respond to the questionnaires.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Oral health literacy
timeFrame: The first data collection (baseline) occurred 2 months after participant recruitment and the second collection will be after the intervention, 3 months after baseline.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Attitudes related to oral health
timeFrame: The first data collection (baseline) occurred 2 months after participant recruitment and the second collection will be after the intervention, 3 months after baseline.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: São Paulo
country: Brazil
facility: Universidade de São Paulo
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Sao Paulo
name: Paulo Frazão
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: University of Sao Paulo
name: Helene Moura
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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