An 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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Jones, Hannah F. and Adams, Clive E. and Clifton, Andrew and Simpson, Jayne and Tosh, Graeme and Liddle, Peter F. and Callaghan, Patrick and Yang, Min and 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

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/714837
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-158
Depositing User: Snowden, Ms Diane
Date Deposited: 24 Mar 2014 13:34
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 16:36
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/2521

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