Primary Caregiver Retention and Perceptions of Retention Strategies in a 36-Month Prospective Childhood Caries Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction/objectives

This paper reports on participant retention from an ongoing prospective, multi-site cohort caries risk study involving parent/infant pairs. The objectives were to: (1) compare the retention rates at each intermediate contact (every 4 months) and dental visit (every 18 months) across the 3 clinical sites, (2) assess primary caregivers' perceptions at the end of the study about the retention efforts used in this longitudinal study, and (3) determine whether primary caregiver baseline demographic characteristics and child's baseline caries experience were associated with retention.

Methods

1325 primary caregiver-child pairs recruited at the child's first birthday were followed for 36 months at 3 sites. Dental visits occurred at children's ages of approxi

SUBMITTER: Daly JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9118394 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature