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The study aims to investigate the role of school teachers in care navigation and signposting dental caries in primary school children.
Dental caries is a multifactorial disease with high prevalence in children. Dental caries is a global public health problem with detrimental impact in developing countries. Despite advances in caries management and detection poorer countries continue to suffer a high burden of disease. Advances in care navigation and sign-posting concepts are increasingly being utilized in general health care to aid early diagnosis and ease the burden of disease in poorer communities. This study aims to investigate the role of primary school teachers as care navigators with regard to dental caries in children.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care Navigation group | Experimental | The teachers will signpost dental caries based on ICCMS visual criteria and refer to the nearest service. Annual monitoring of caries |
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| No internvention | No Intervention | Caries experience (dmft) activity monitored annually |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signpost caries | Diagnostic Test | Identify carious lesion according to ICCMS visual criteria |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| untreated caries increment | decay component of the Index of decayed, extracted and filled teeth for the groups (deft) | 36 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| caries experience (deft) | deft index (for entire group) | 36 months |
| caries experience for the most affected one third (SIC index) | SIC index (deft of the most affected one third of each group) |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Healthy school children between the ages of 5-8 years Regular school attender Lives in the local village Co-operative
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Khartoum Centre for Research and Medical Training | Khartoum | 11111 | Sudan |
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non-randomized parallel design
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| 36 months |
| care index | proportion of filled and extracted teeth (df/deft) | 36 months |