Trial reportBMC oral health2015
The midwifery initiated oral health-dental service protocol: an intervention to improve oral health outcomes for pregnant women.
Trial report in BMC oral health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions with pregnant women, new mothers and other primary caregivers for preventing early childhood caries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions with pregnant women, new mothers and other primary caregivers for preventing early childhood caries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Prenatal Oral Health Care and Early Childhood Caries Prevention: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Caries research · 2019Pooled it
- Promoting Oral Health Behavior During Pregnancy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of research in health sciences · 2023Trial
- Measuring oral health during pregnancy: sensitivity and specificity of a maternal oral screening (MOS) tool.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2016Trial
- Challenges in oral health referral during pregnancy: perspectives from antenatal and dental care providers.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Knowledge and attitudes on oral health of women during pregnancy and their children: an online survey.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Factors influencing adoption of oral health promotion by antenatal care providers in Moyo district, North-Western Uganda.PloS one · 2023Article
- Associations between dental care approachability and dental attendance among women pregnant with an Indigenous child: a cross-sectional study.BMC oral health · 2021Article
- Economic evaluation of the Midwifery Initiated Oral Health-Dental Service programme in Australia.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Oral health promotion practices of Australian community mental health professionals: a cross sectional web-based survey.BMC oral health · 2021Article
- Self-Reported Oral Health Knowledge and Practices During Pregnancy and Their Social Determinants in Poland.Oral health & preventive dentistry · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of preventive dental programs offered to mothers by non-dental professionals to control early childhood dental caries: a review.BMC oral health · 2019Review
- Medical Provider Promotion of Oral Health and Women's Receipt of Dental Care During Pregnancy.Maternal and child health journal · 2019Article
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- What do antenatal care providers understand and do about oral health care during pregnancy: a cross-sectional survey in New South Wales, Australia.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2016Article
- Midwives' oral health recommendations for pregnant women, infants and young children: results of a nationwide survey in Germany.BMC oral health · 2016Article
- Midwives' perspectives of their ability to promote the oral health of pregnant women in Victoria, Australia.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence is emerging that women's poor oral health and health practices during pregnancy are associated with poor oral health in their children and potentially an increased risk of pre-term or low-birth weight infants. METHODS/
designThe Midwifery Initiated Oral Health-Dental Service (MIOH-DS) trial is a three arm multicentre randomised controlled trial which will recruit women from three metropolitan hospitals aimed at improving women's oral health and service access and indirectly reducing perinatal morbidity. All three arms of the trial will deliver oral health promotion material, although a midwife oral assessment and referral to private/public/health fund dental services pathway (Intervention Group 1) and the midwife oral assessment and referral to local free public dental services pathway (Intervention Group 2) will be compared to the control group of oral health promotional material only. Midwives will undergo specific oral health education and competency testing to undertake this novel intervention. DISCUSSION: This efficacy trial will promote a new partnership between midwives and dentists focused on enhancing the oral health of women and their infants. Should the intervention be found effective, this intervention, with existing on-line educational program for midwives, can be easily transferred into practice for large metropolitan health services within and beyond Australia. Further cost-benefit analysis is proposed to inform national health policy.
trial registrationAustralian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12612001271897.
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