Patricia Estefania Ayala Aguirre|Matheus Lotto|Anna Paola Strieder|Agnes Fátima Pereira Cruvinel|Thiago Cruvinel
The Effectiveness of Educational Mobile Messages for Assisting in the Prevention of Early Childhood Caries: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Universidade de São Paulo|Universidade de São Paulo|Universidade de São Paulo|Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul|Universidade de São Paulo
2017 approximately 37 billion downloads health apps made mobile phones tablets sense massive number people could benefit electronic mobilebased health interventions making information available even lack material human resources hence use electronic apps dental education might extremely useful prevention early childhood caries eccthis study aims evaluate effectiveness messages sent via mobile phones adjuvant method prevention ecca singleblinded randomized parallelgroup clinical trial conducted dyads parents caregivers children aged 36 60 months recruited kindergartens schools bauru paulo determination sample size resulted total 104 dyads parents children considering power 80 significance level 5 attrition 30 sample randomly assigned test control groups divided 52 dyads per group according health literacy levels parents age gender oral health status children every 2 weeks participants test group receive messages via whatsapp containing preventive educationrelated ecc information dyads visit dentist every 3 months year assessment primary outcomes sugar consumption international caries detection assessment system visible plaque community periodontal indices receive dental care measures secondary outcomes electronic health literacy general perceived selfefficacy determined baseline 12month followup quality randomization evaluated throughout study comparing test control groups systematically student tests continuous variables chisquare tests categorical variables listwise deletion method applied cases dropouts missing values satisfy criteria missing completely random otherwise multiple imputation data strategy conducted kolmogorovsmirnov levene tests used determine normality homogeneity data respectively indicate statistical analyses elucidating significant differences groups p05 student test mannwhitney u test employed parametric nonparametric analyses respectivelythe project funded 2018 enrollment completed august 2019 allocation currently way first results expected submitted publication 2020the results contribute understanding importance educational mobile messages toward adoption healthy behaviors prevention ecc given populationbrazilian registry clinical trials universal trial number u111112161393 httpwwwensaiosclinicosgovbrrgrbr2b6r7qprr110219613656