NCT03522337

Oral Health Promotion Among Preschool Children With Special Needs

Completed NA Last updated 18 April 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Visual pedagogy (social stories) in Intellectual Disability in 306 participants. Completed in 30 September 2018.

Timeline

12 April 2016

Primary endpoint
28 September 2018

30 September 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	The University of Hong Kong
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	306
Start date	12 April 2016
Primary completion	28 September 2018
Estimated completion	30 September 2018
Sites	1 location across China

Drugs / interventions tested

• Visual pedagogy (social stories)
• Conventional leaflets

Conditions studied

• Intellectual Disability — all drugs for Intellectual Disability →
• Cerebral Palsy — all drugs for Cerebral Palsy →
• Developmental Disorders — all drugs for Developmental Disorders →
• Developmental Delay — all drugs for Developmental Delay →

Sponsor

The University of Hong Kong

Who can join

Adults 2 to 6, any sex, with Intellectual Disability or Cerebral Palsy. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Establishing good oral health-related habit is challenging among younger children, especially for preschool children with special needs, as they have physical, mental, sensory, behavioural, emotional, and chronic medical conditions that requires health care beyond the routines. Existing evidences showed that children with special needs have poorer oral health status and more challenging behaviours than their counterparts in main stream schools. Visual pedagogy, such as social stories, have been applied to teach a variety of skills or behaviours to individuals with special needs. They are short stories demonstrating the target skill or behaviour, and then the readers are expected to perform the target skill or behaviour following the demonstrations. Giving the evidence that children with special needs can understand complex situations and learn new practices by using those stories, we expect to apply a package of structured social stories to modify oral health-related behaviours (tooth brushing, healthy eating, dental visit), and thereby, improve oral health status among preschool children with special needs. Establishment of good oral-health related behaviours in early childhood will benefits children in their future life. Additionally, visual pedagogy-assisted oral health education is relatively easy and safe to implement. If proven effective, social story-based preventive care can be recommended to special children globally.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Oral hygiene interventions for people with intellectual disabilities.
   Waldron C, Nunn J, Mac Giolla Phadraig C, Comiskey C, et al · · 2019 · cited 59× · PMID 31149734 · DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd012628.pub2