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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
307
Identify carious lesion according to ICCMS visual criteria
Khartoum Centre for Research and Medical Training
Khartoum, Sudan
untreated caries increment
decay component of the Index of decayed, extracted and filled teeth for the groups (deft)
Time frame: 36 months
caries experience (deft)
deft index (for entire group)
Time frame: 36 months
caries experience for the most affected one third (SIC index)
SIC index (deft of the most affected one third of each group)
Time frame: 36 months
care index
proportion of filled and extracted teeth (df/deft)
Time frame: 36 months
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