An oral health intervention for people with serious mental illness (Three Shires Early Intervention Dental Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Background Oral health is an important part of general physical health and is essential for self-esteem, self-confidence and overall quality of life. There is a well-established link between mental illness and poor oral health. Oral health problems are not generally well recognized by mental health...

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Main Authors: Jones, Hannah F., Adams, Clive E., Clifton, Andrew, Simpson, Jayne, Tosh, Graeme, Liddle, Peter F., Callaghan, Patrick, Yang, Min, Guo, Boliang, Furtado, Vivek
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Published: BioMed Central 2013
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author Jones, Hannah F.
Adams, Clive E.
Clifton, Andrew
Simpson, Jayne
Tosh, Graeme
Liddle, Peter F.
Callaghan, Patrick
Yang, Min
Guo, Boliang
Furtado, Vivek
author_facet Jones, Hannah F.
Adams, Clive E.
Clifton, Andrew
Simpson, Jayne
Tosh, Graeme
Liddle, Peter F.
Callaghan, Patrick
Yang, Min
Guo, Boliang
Furtado, Vivek
author_sort Jones, Hannah F.
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description Background Oral health is an important part of general physical health and is essential for self-esteem, self-confidence and overall quality of life. There is a well-established link between mental illness and poor oral health. Oral health problems are not generally well recognized by mental health professionals and many patients experience barriers to treatment. Methods/Design This is the protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised trial that has been designed to fit within standard care. Dental awareness training for care co-ordinators plus a dental checklist for service users in addition to standard care will be compared with standard care alone for people with mental illness. The checklist consists of questions about service users’ current oral health routine and condition. Ten Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire will be cluster randomised (five to intervention and five to standard care) in blocks accounting for location and size of caseload. The oral health of the service users will be monitored for one year after randomisation. Trial registration Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN63382258.
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spelling nottingham-25212020-05-04T16:36:43Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2521/ An oral health intervention for people with serious mental illness (Three Shires Early Intervention Dental Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial Jones, Hannah F. Adams, Clive E. Clifton, Andrew Simpson, Jayne Tosh, Graeme Liddle, Peter F. Callaghan, Patrick Yang, Min Guo, Boliang Furtado, Vivek Background Oral health is an important part of general physical health and is essential for self-esteem, self-confidence and overall quality of life. There is a well-established link between mental illness and poor oral health. Oral health problems are not generally well recognized by mental health professionals and many patients experience barriers to treatment. Methods/Design This is the protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised trial that has been designed to fit within standard care. Dental awareness training for care co-ordinators plus a dental checklist for service users in addition to standard care will be compared with standard care alone for people with mental illness. The checklist consists of questions about service users’ current oral health routine and condition. Ten Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire will be cluster randomised (five to intervention and five to standard care) in blocks accounting for location and size of caseload. The oral health of the service users will be monitored for one year after randomisation. Trial registration Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN63382258. BioMed Central 2013-05-29 Article PeerReviewed Jones, Hannah F., Adams, Clive E., Clifton, Andrew, Simpson, Jayne, Tosh, Graeme, Liddle, Peter F., Callaghan, Patrick, Yang, Min, Guo, Boliang and Furtado, Vivek (2013) An oral health intervention for people with serious mental illness (Three Shires Early Intervention Dental Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 14 . 8/1-8/8. ISSN 1745-6215 http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/14/1/158 doi:10.1186/1745-6215-14-158 doi:10.1186/1745-6215-14-158
spellingShingle Jones, Hannah F.
Adams, Clive E.
Clifton, Andrew
Simpson, Jayne
Tosh, Graeme
Liddle, Peter F.
Callaghan, Patrick
Yang, Min
Guo, Boliang
Furtado, Vivek
An oral health intervention for people with serious mental illness (Three Shires Early Intervention Dental Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title An oral health intervention for people with serious mental illness (Three Shires Early Intervention Dental Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_full An oral health intervention for people with serious mental illness (Three Shires Early Intervention Dental Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_fullStr An oral health intervention for people with serious mental illness (Three Shires Early Intervention Dental Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed An oral health intervention for people with serious mental illness (Three Shires Early Intervention Dental Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_short An oral health intervention for people with serious mental illness (Three Shires Early Intervention Dental Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_sort oral health intervention for people with serious mental illness (three shires early intervention dental trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
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