Interactions between dental staff and families in Childsmile Practice
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Interactions between dental professionals and families: a feasibility and pilot study for audio-visual recording of Childsmile in Dental Practice (BEHAVE2)
IRAS ID
188980
Contact name
Siyang Yuan
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Dundee
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
90/S1402/22, Nurse-Child Interaction in Delivery of Childsmile intervention
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Childsmile is a NHS initiative funded by the Scottish Government to improve oral health of children in Scotland. The parents are encouraged to take their children to attend their local General Dental Practice by the Dental Health Support Workers. However it is unclear exactly what components the staff are employing to enhance the receipt of fluoride varnish, giving advice and support for parents to supervise their child’s toothbrushing and dietary behaviour. In order to document this innovative scheme and to increase acceptability of the fluoride vanish application (FVA), the Scottish Government funded this project with the main aim to assess the feasibility and acceptability of exploring the interactions between dental professionals, child patients and their parents when providing FVA and/or dental health education through audio-visual recording in General Dental Practice. In addition, we will explore the feasibility and acceptability of studying the interactions using audio-visual recordings in the context of General Dental Practice.
After obtaining informed consent from dental professionals and parents, we will video record interactive behaviours of dental professionals, parents and children when the children are receiving the FVA at the General Dental Practice in NHS Fife and Tayside Board regions. We expect to collect approximately 50 video sessions in 6 months. A coding scheme will be developed based on [1]a modified St Andrews Behaviour Interaction Coding Scheme, [2]Verona Code and [3]Behaviour Change Techniques Taxonomy to record and to identify patterns of behaviours. Some additional information will be requested from dental professionals and parents on their perceptions of the feasibility of this study using a semi-structured interview. We hope the findings of this study will inform the Childsmile programme and contribute to research in healthcare in communication.
REC name
East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1
REC reference
16/ES/0081
Date of REC Opinion
26 Jul 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion