Are technology‐based health education methods able to reduce oral health inequalities between the sexes in adolescents? A cluster randomized trial.
Purpose: Determine if different technology‐based health education interventions can reduce oral health inequalities between the sexes in a sample of adolescents. Methods: A cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted in three phases with an initial sample of 291 male and female adolescents 14–19...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Dental Hygiene Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 485 - 494 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=178558307&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 178558307 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 16015029 K8M jtl: International Journal of Dental Hygiene issn: 16015029 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Aug2024 vid: 22 iid: 3 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 178558307 159968467 178558307 178558307 10.1111/idh.12641 178558307 ppf: 485 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Are technology‐based health education methods able to reduce oral health inequalities between the sexes in adolescents? A cluster randomized trial. aug: au: Marchetti, Gisele Vendruscolo, Joana Leticia Reis, Giselle Emilãine da Silva Fraiz, Fabian Calixto Soares, Geisla Mary Silva Assunção, Luciana Reichert da Silva affil: Department of Stomatology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil sug: subj: Information Technology Health Education Oral Health In Adolescence Health Status Disparities Preventive Dentistry Outcomes of Education Human Funding Source Randomized Controlled Trials Random Assignment Male Female Adolescence Young Adult Clinical Assessment Tools Videorecording Counseling Odds Ratio Mobile Applications Descriptive Statistics Nonparametric Statistics Oral Hygiene Summated Rating Scaling Brazil Pilot Studies Prospective Studies Bivariate Statistics Kruskal-Wallis Test Chi Square Test Mann-Whitney U Test Data Analysis Software Adolescent: 13-18 years Male Female ab: Purpose: Determine if different technology‐based health education interventions can reduce oral health inequalities between the sexes in a sample of adolescents. Methods: A cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted in three phases with an initial sample of 291 male and female adolescents 14–19 years of age. Phase I (n = 288) comprised a clinical examination performed by a calibrated examiner using the simplified oral hygiene index (OHI‐S) and gingival bleeding index (GBI). Phase II involved two educational interventions: video (VD; n = 147) or oral counselling (OR; n = 141) with standardized content. In phase III, an App was made available to half of the clusters (OR + App; n = 66/OR without App; n = 71/VD + App; n = 63/VD without App; n = 63), and the clinical examination was performed a second time. Data were evaluated using descriptive analysis and nonparametric tests. Results: In phase I, boys had a lower standard of oral hygiene compared with girls, with higher mean OHI‐S (p = 0.039) and GBI (p = 0.015). After VD and OR interventions, no significant difference between sexes was found regarding the mean OHI‐S. However, males had a higher mean GBI compared with females in the OR group (p = 0.006). When the App was added to OR and VD groups, males in the 'OR without App' group had a higher mean GBI compared with females (p = 0.007). Conclusion: This clinical trial demonstrated that educational interventions involving information technologies were effective at reducing oral health inequalities between the sexes among adolescents. However, oral counselling alone was not efficient in reducing GBI in male adolescents. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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