ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2026
Short-Term Outcomes of Visual-Aid-Based Motivation on Children's Oral Hygiene: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesThe aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of positive and negative visual aids used during verbal-active oral hygiene education on oral hygiene-related behaviors in children aged 7 to 14 years. MATERIALS AND
methodsIn this single-blind design, sixty children were randomly assigned to three groups: G1:Positive visual aid, G2:Negative visual aid, and G3:Verbal-active education. Oral hygiene was evaluated using the Silness-Löe Index (plaque) and Rosenberg Organoleptic Scale (halitosis) at baseline, one week, and one month. Measurements were taken at baseline, at the end of the first week, and at the end of the first month. Data were analyzed using split-plot ANOVA.
resultsThe test groups did not show any statistically significant differences in terms of age (F = 0.530,
conclusionsThis study demonstrated that both verbal education aided by positive and negative visuals and structured-only verbal education improved children's oral hygiene and halitosis scores in the short term.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.