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- Title
A theory-guided school-based intervention in order to improve adolescents' oral self-care: a cluster randomized trial.
- Authors
Aleksejūnienė, Jolanta; Brukienė, Vilma; Džiaugyte, Lina; Pečiulienė, Vytautė; Bendinskaitė, Rūta
- Abstract
Aim To evaluate the efficiency of social-cognitive theory-guided oral hygiene interventions in adolescents and to identify predictors of adolescents' self-care practice. Design A cluster randomized trial included 197 15- to 16-year-olds from two secondary schools. The intervention group received three face-to-face educational hands-on sessions facilitated by a dentist and adolescents worked in pairs. Individual dental plaque levels were measured at baseline, after intervention, at six and at 12 months. The structured questionnaire inquired about gender, family socio-economic status (baseline), and different social-cognitive domain variables (baseline, six, and 12 months). Results At baseline, there were no statistically significant differences in dental plaque scores between the intervention and control groups ( P = 0.183). At the 6-month follow-up, the intervention group had significantly less dental plaque than the control group ( P = 0.047), but the intergroup difference in dental plaque levels was not significant at the 12-month follow-up ( P = 0.400). Variations in dental plaque levels at different time periods were explained by the following predictors: family's socio-economic status, social-cognitive domain variables, group affiliation, and baseline plaque levels. Conclusions Social-cognitive theory-guided interventions improved oral self-care of adolescents in the short term. After the intervention was discontinued, the improvement in oral self-care of adolescents lasted for another 5 months.
- Subjects
STATISTICAL correlation; DENTAL plaque; DENTISTS; HEALTH promotion; HIGH school students; RESEARCH evaluation; SCHOOL health services; HEALTH self-care; SELF-efficacy; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); AFFINITY groups; DATA analysis; SOCIAL learning theory; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ONE-way analysis of variance; CLUSTER sampling
- Publication
International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, 2016, Vol 26, Issue 2, p100
- ISSN
0960-7439
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ipd.12164