NCT03641885

A Social Media Intervention on Promoting Oral Heath Among Iranian Adolescents

Completed NA Last updated 11 December 2018

What this trial tests

NA trial testing mothers and adolescents in Health Behavior in 791 participants. Completed in 1 November 2018.

Timeline

1 February 2018

Primary endpoint
1 October 2018

1 November 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Qazvin University Of Medical Sciences
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	triple
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	791
Start date	1 February 2018
Primary completion	1 October 2018
Estimated completion	1 November 2018
Sites	1 location across Iran

Drugs / interventions tested

• mothers and adolescents
• adolescents
• active control — full drug profile →

Conditions studied

• Health Behavior — all drugs for Health Behavior →
• Adolescent Behavior — all drugs for Adolescent Behavior →
• Parent-Child Relations — all drugs for Parent-Child Relations →

Sponsor

Qazvin University Of Medical Sciences

Who can join

Adults 12 to 16, any sex, with Health Behavior or Adolescent Behavior. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Online social networking sites, such as Telegram, possess a number of useful features that could enhance oral health promotion interventions, including the ability of users to share personal information, which is aggregated and displayed to other users .This study is a longitudinal controlled trial that is designed to investigate the effectiveness of a multi-component intervention on improving oral health in adolescents and their mothers. Participants will be allocated in three groups with a) an intervention group in which mothers and children receive the intervention and questionnaires via Telegram, b) only the children receive the intervention via Telegram and mothers and children receive the questionnaires, and c) mothers and children are in active control group and only receive the questionnaires. The intervention package contains behavior change techniques targeting outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, action planning, coping planning, and self-monitoring. The active control group receives an information sheet regarding recommendations on Oral health behaviors. There will be 3 assessment points in time, baseline, 1 month and 6 months after the interventions.

The primary outcome of this study is to estimate the dyadic mechanisms between mothers and their children regarding improving oral health. Secondary outcome is to investigate whether oral health behavior did improve in the intervention groups in general and also to find the psychological mechanism behind the changes during the time of the study.

Publications & conference data

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

1. A theory-based intervention delivered by an online social media platform to promote oral health among Iranian adolescents: a cluster randomized controlled trial.
   Scheerman JFM, Hamilton K, Sharif MO, Lindmark U, et al · · 2020 · cited 34× · PMID 31621423 · DOI 10.1080/08870446.2019.1673895