Correlation Between Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Caregivers and Oral Health Status of Alzheimer's Disease Patients

Cairo University30 enrolled

Overview

A cross-sectional study to assess the relation between the knowledge, attitude and practices or caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients and the oral health status of these patients.

A cross-sectional study to assess knowledge, attitude and practices of care givers of Alzheimer's disease patients using a questionnaire as a tool and evaluating the oral health status of these patients by recording DMF scores and simplified oral hygiene index in order to assess if there is any correlation between those two variables

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Practices of Caregivers Knowledge of Caregivers Attitudes of Caregivers Oral Health Status of Alzheimer Patients

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 60 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria for caregivers: * all primary caregivers serving Alzheimer's disease patients. Inclusion criteria for Alzheimer's disease patients : \* all patients whose medical condition allows for an oral examination Exclusion Criteria for caregivers: * caregivers who are not directly involved in the daily care * caregivers who refuse to participate in the study Exclusion criteria for Alzheimer's disease patients : * patients with deteriorated medical condition that do not permit clinical examination.

Locations (1)

Cairo University

Giza, Giza Governorate, Egypt

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

knowledge , attitude and practices of primary caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients

validated questionnaire to assess the KAP of caregivers of AD patients

Time frame: Baseline

Secondary Outcomes

Oral health status of AD patients

measure the DMF index

Time frame: Baseline

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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