Design of a community-based intergenerational oral health study: "Baby Smiles".

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rural, low-income pregnant women and their children are at high risk for poor oral health and have low utilization rates of dental care. The Baby Smiles study was designed to increase low-income pregnant women's utilization of dental care, increase young children's dental care utilization, and improve home oral health care practices.

Methods/design

Baby Smiles was a five-year, four-site randomized intervention trial with a 2 × 2 factorial design. Four hundred participants were randomly assigned to one of four treatment arms in which they received either brief Motivational Interviewing (MI) or health education (HE) delivered during pregnancy and after the baby was born. In the prenatal study phase, the interventions were designed to encourage dental utilization dur

SUBMITTER: Milgrom P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3751087 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature