BMJ Open
Volume 4, Issue 3, 2014

An exploratory trial implementing a community-based child oral health promotion intervention for Australian families from refugee and migrant backgrounds: A protocol paper for Teeth Tales (Article) (Open Access)

Gibbs L.* , Waters E. , De Silva A. , Riggs E. , Moore L. , Armit C. , Johnson B. , Morris M. , Calache H. , Gussy M. , Young D. , Tadic M. , Christian B. , Gondal I. , Watt R. , Pradel V. , Truong M. , Gold L.
  • a Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia
  • b Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia
  • c Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia, Dental Health Services Victoria, Carlton, VIC, Australia
  • d Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia, Healthy Mothers Healthy Families Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia
  • e MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • f Merri Community Health Services, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
  • g Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia
  • h Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health, Richmond, VIC, Australia
  • i Dental Health Services Victoria, Carlton, VIC, Australia
  • j Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC, Australia
  • k Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia
  • l Merri Community Health Services, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
  • m Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia
  • n Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Pakistan Australia Association Melbourne, Caulfield, VIC, Australia
  • o Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
  • p Merri Community Health Services, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
  • q Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia
  • r Deakin Health Economics, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia

Abstract

Introduction: Inequalities are evident in early childhood caries rates with the socially disadvantaged experiencing greater burden of disease. This study builds on formative qualitative research, conducted in the Moreland/Hume local government areas of Melbourne, Victoria 2006-2009, in response to community concerns for oral health of children from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Development of the community-based intervention described here extends the partnership approach to cogeneration of contemporary evidence with continued and meaningful involvement of investigators, community, cultural and government partners. This trial aims to establish a model for child oral health promotion for culturally diverse communities in Australia. Methods and analysis: This is an exploratory trial implementing a community-based child oral health promotion intervention for Australian families from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Families from an Iraqi, Lebanese or Pakistani background with children aged 1-4 years, residing in metropolitan Melbourne, were invited to participate in the trial by peer educators from their respective communities using snowball and purposive sampling techniques. Target sample size was 600. Moreland, a culturally diverse, inner-urban metropolitan area of Melbourne, was chosen as the intervention site. The intervention comprised peer educator led community oral health education sessions and reorienting of dental health and family services through cultural Competency Organisational Review (CORe). Ethics and dissemination: Ethics approval for this trial was granted by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Research Committee. Study progress and output will be disseminated via periodic newsletters, peer-reviewed research papers, reports, community seminars and at National and International conferences. Trial registration number: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12611000532909).

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information processing Vulnerable Populations vulnerable population urban population urban area clinical protocol cultural anthropology dental health refugee health promotion Australia Oral Health clinical trial demography community care human Refugees Asia medical ethics Asia, Western mouth hygiene Victoria ethnology qualitative research Residence Characteristics health Humans family preschool child Infant Child, Preschool dental caries peer group child health Article health education migration exploratory research government participatory research Transients and Migrants Focus Groups family service Child
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84897518942&doi=10.1136%2fbmjopen-2013-004260&partnerID=40&md5=576727fef7d1e40d315719c45ff34499
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004260
ISSN: 20446055
Cited by: 9
Original Language: English