Clinical trial NCT01652300: The Effect of Oral Health Education in Pregnancy
Official title: Oral Health Education in Pregnancy Promotes Knowledge,Attitude and Performance of Pregnant Women About Oral Health.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
PHASE3
Conditions: Pregnancy
Keywords: Oral health
education
knowledge
attitude
performance
Lead sponsor: Gonabad University of Medical Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
First posted: 2012-07-30
Enrollment: 142
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Periodontal diseased during pregnancy are associated with many unpleasant prenatal consequences including preeclampsia, preterm labor, and low birth weight (LBW). Treatment of such diseases and observance of oral and dental hygiene may to some large extent prevent such consequences. Unfortunately previous studies have shown that pregnant women have very little knowledge of oral and dental health implications. Given the fact that pregnancy my be a unique opportunity to initiate correct hygienic behaviors in young women, this paper has focused on studying the effects of oral and dental health education during pregnancy.

In this single blind clinical trial study,140 pregnant women receiving care from Khaje Rabi Regional Health Center in Mashhad city who were members of a community based multi-center were chosen by systematic clustering methods and randomly allocated into test and control groups. After intervention, two questionnaires were completed for demographic and pregnancy details of the participants. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed before intervention. The test group had two educational sessions lasting 1 hour, focused on oral and dental health and especially on oral and dental health during pregnancy. women in the control group received no education. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed immediately after and one month after intervention of all participants. Analysis of data was done using SPSS, t-test and chi-square tests.

Detailed description: In this clinical trial study,140 pregnant women receiving care from Khaje Rabi Regional Health Center in Mashhad city who were members of a community based multi-center were chosen by systematic clustering methods and randomly allocated into test and control groups. After intervention, two questionnaires were completed for demographic and pregnancy details of the participants. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed before intervention. The test group had two educational sessions lasting 1 hour, focused on oral and dental health and especially on oral and dental health during pregnancy. women in the control group received no education. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed immediately after and one month after intervention of all participants. Analysis of data was done using SPSS, t-test and chi-square tests.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Spoke Persian
* minimum education margin of primary school studies
* Gestational age between 12 and 32 weeks
* lacked any type of physical or mental problem
* lacked of any disease that could prevent from taking dental care

Exclusion Criteria:

* who did not attend the education sessions
* failed to complete the questionnaires
* receive any special education between post-test and stability test

Primary outcomes:
measure: Score of KAP about oral health
timeFrame: 2 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mashhad
country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
facility: Mums
state: Khorasan Razavi
Study officials:
affiliation: GonabadMUM
name: narjes BahriBinabaj, Msc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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