Improving Family's Adherence to Dental Care After DGA (HECC-CAN-study)
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Child Neglect
- Dental Caries
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentMasking: Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)Primary Purpose: Prevention
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Younger than 5 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
In an earlier Finnish study 26% of the children did not attend to their first scheduled appointment after the DGA and during a four years follow-up period 63% of the patients had one or more no-shows. Based on the assumption that reducing the amount of no-shows to half of the reported earlier (60% v...
In an earlier Finnish study 26% of the children did not attend to their first scheduled appointment after the DGA and during a four years follow-up period 63% of the patients had one or more no-shows. Based on the assumption that reducing the amount of no-shows to half of the reported earlier (60% vs. 30%) is a clinically relevant result, we need 42 patients for both groups (alpha 0.05, beta 0.2, power 0.8).
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04898465
- Collaborators
- Not Provided
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Eeva Nikkola, MD, PhD Consultant
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