CATCH Healthy Smiles:An Elementary School Oral Health Intervention Trial

CATCH Healthy Smiles: A Cluster-RCT of an Elementary School Oral Health Intervention

The purpose of this study is to clinically evaluate the effects of a school-based behavioral intervention, CATCH Healthy Smiles, to reduce the risk of dental caries in a cohort of kindergarten through 2nd grade (K-2) children serving low-income, ethnically-diverse children,to determine the impact of CATCH Healthy Smiles on child behavioral, psychosocial, and environmental outcomes beginning in K through 2nd grade, compared to children in the control schools and to examine the extent to which the child behavioral, psychosocial, and environmental factors mediate the improvements in child caries risk.

Inclusion Criteria:

For schools:

• greater than 75% of the children enrolled in the dree/reduced school lunch program.
• enrolling children in grade K in the 2021-2022 school year.
• agree to implement the CATCH Healthy Smiles program and agreed to participate in the measurements

For parent and child to participate in the measures:

• ability of the parent to speak and read in English or Spanish at the 4th grade level,
• child enrolled in the participating school in grade K in the 2021-2022 school year
• child ability to participate in the regular activities at the school

Exclusion Criteria:

-No congenital dental conditions such as cleft palate, children with enamel hypoplasia, severe fluorosis, or special dental setting needs.