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Study protocol for First Dental Steps Intervention: feasibility study of a health visitor led infant oral health improvement programme

BACKGROUND: Dental caries in childhood is a burden on the daily lives of children and their families, and associated with poor oral health in adulthood. In England, dental caries is the most common reason for young children to be admitted to hospital. It is believed that most tooth extractions (due...

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Autores principales: Albers, Patricia N., Williams, Joanna G., El-Yousfi, Sarab, Marshman, Zoe, Patel, Reena, Kandiyali, Rebecca, Breheny, Katie, de Vocht, Frank, Metcalfe, Chris, Witton, Robert, Kipping, Ruth
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9719194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36463273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01195-w
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author Albers, Patricia N.
Williams, Joanna G.
El-Yousfi, Sarab
Marshman, Zoe
Patel, Reena
Kandiyali, Rebecca
Breheny, Katie
de Vocht, Frank
Metcalfe, Chris
Witton, Robert
Kipping, Ruth
author_facet Albers, Patricia N.
Williams, Joanna G.
El-Yousfi, Sarab
Marshman, Zoe
Patel, Reena
Kandiyali, Rebecca
Breheny, Katie
de Vocht, Frank
Metcalfe, Chris
Witton, Robert
Kipping, Ruth
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description BACKGROUND: Dental caries in childhood is a burden on the daily lives of children and their families, and associated with poor oral health in adulthood. In England, dental caries is the most common reason for young children to be admitted to hospital. It is believed that most tooth extractions (due to decay) for children aged 10 years and under, could be avoided with improved prevention and early management. National public health policy recommendations in England include specific oral health initiatives to tackle tooth decay. One of these initiatives is delivered as part of the Healthy Child Programme and includes providing workforce training in oral health, integrating oral health advice into home visits, and the timely provision of fluoride toothpaste. This protocol seeks to assess the delivery of the First Dental Steps intervention and uncertainties related to the acceptability, recruitment, and retention of participants. METHODS: This study seeks to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the First Dental Steps intervention and research methods. First Dental Steps intervention will be delivered in local authority areas in South West England and includes oral health training for health visitors (or community nursery nurses) working with 0–5-year-olds and their families. Further, for vulnerable families, integrating oral health advice and the provision of an oral health pack (including a free flow cup, an age appropriate toothbrush, and 1450 ppm fluoride toothpaste) during a mandated check by a health visitor. In this study five local authority areas will receive the intervention. Interviews with parents receiving the intervention and health visitors delivering the intervention will be undertaken, along with a range of additional interviews with stakeholders from both intervention and comparison sites (four additional local authority areas). DISCUSSION: This protocol was written after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a result, some of the original methods were adjusted specifically to account for disruptions caused by the pandemic. Results of this study will primarily provide evidence on the acceptability and feasibility of both the First Dental Steps intervention and the research methods from the perspective of both families and stakeholders. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40814-022-01195-w.
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spelling pubmed-97191942022-12-04 Study protocol for First Dental Steps Intervention: feasibility study of a health visitor led infant oral health improvement programme Albers, Patricia N. Williams, Joanna G. El-Yousfi, Sarab Marshman, Zoe Patel, Reena Kandiyali, Rebecca Breheny, Katie de Vocht, Frank Metcalfe, Chris Witton, Robert Kipping, Ruth Pilot Feasibility Stud Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Dental caries in childhood is a burden on the daily lives of children and their families, and associated with poor oral health in adulthood. In England, dental caries is the most common reason for young children to be admitted to hospital. It is believed that most tooth extractions (due to decay) for children aged 10 years and under, could be avoided with improved prevention and early management. National public health policy recommendations in England include specific oral health initiatives to tackle tooth decay. One of these initiatives is delivered as part of the Healthy Child Programme and includes providing workforce training in oral health, integrating oral health advice into home visits, and the timely provision of fluoride toothpaste. This protocol seeks to assess the delivery of the First Dental Steps intervention and uncertainties related to the acceptability, recruitment, and retention of participants. METHODS: This study seeks to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the First Dental Steps intervention and research methods. First Dental Steps intervention will be delivered in local authority areas in South West England and includes oral health training for health visitors (or community nursery nurses) working with 0–5-year-olds and their families. Further, for vulnerable families, integrating oral health advice and the provision of an oral health pack (including a free flow cup, an age appropriate toothbrush, and 1450 ppm fluoride toothpaste) during a mandated check by a health visitor. In this study five local authority areas will receive the intervention. Interviews with parents receiving the intervention and health visitors delivering the intervention will be undertaken, along with a range of additional interviews with stakeholders from both intervention and comparison sites (four additional local authority areas). DISCUSSION: This protocol was written after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a result, some of the original methods were adjusted specifically to account for disruptions caused by the pandemic. Results of this study will primarily provide evidence on the acceptability and feasibility of both the First Dental Steps intervention and the research methods from the perspective of both families and stakeholders. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40814-022-01195-w. BioMed Central 2022-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9719194/ /pubmed/36463273 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01195-w Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Albers, Patricia N.
Williams, Joanna G.
El-Yousfi, Sarab
Marshman, Zoe
Patel, Reena
Kandiyali, Rebecca
Breheny, Katie
de Vocht, Frank
Metcalfe, Chris
Witton, Robert
Kipping, Ruth
Study protocol for First Dental Steps Intervention: feasibility study of a health visitor led infant oral health improvement programme
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9719194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36463273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01195-w
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