Involving Parents to Improve Tooth Brushing for Autistic Children.

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Parents of autistic children have reported a lack of understanding by oral health care staff around delivery of oral health preventive habits for their children. This study aims to investigate if oral healthcare training utilising the Mini Mouth Care Matters (MCM) programme designed for Special Education Settings (SES) enhances parent confidence in their ability to influence their child's oral health, increases toothbrushing episodes and reduces challenging toothbrushing behaviour of autistic children. The participants of this study will be parents of children who have a confirmed professional diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Parents will be recruited via healthcare professionals who provide oral health promotion within SES. Special Education Settings will be randomised into one of two groups. Group one will receive 'delivering better oral health' advice. Group two will receive the MCM user intervention guide for oral healthcare. A maximum of 30 parents will be recruited into each intervention arm. A maximum of 60 parents will be recruited to the study.

What you commit to

• Study type: Interventional
• Planned participants: 48
• From Jan 2024 to the primary completion date, Mar 2025
• 1 site in 1 country
• Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who the study is looking for

Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

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