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Eskyte I, Gray-Burrows K, Owen J, et al. HABIT-an early phase study to explore an oral health intervention delivered by health visitors to parents with young children aged 9-12 months: study protocol. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2018;4:68doi: 10.1186/s40814-018-0261-0.
Eskyte, I., Gray-Burrows, K., Owen, J., Sykes-Muskett, B., Zoltie, T., Gill, S., Smith, V., McEachan, R., Marshman, Z., West, R., Pavitt, S., & Day, P. (2018). HABIT-an early phase study to explore an oral health intervention delivered by health visitors to parents with young children aged 9-12 months: study protocol. Pilot and feasibility studies, 468. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0261-0
Eskyte, Ieva, et al. "HABIT-an early phase study to explore an oral health intervention delivered by health visitors to parents with young children aged 9-12 months: study protocol." Pilot and feasibility studies vol. 4 (2018): 68. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0261-0
Eskyte I, Gray-Burrows K, Owen J, Sykes-Muskett B, Zoltie T, Gill S, Smith V, McEachan R, Marshman Z, West R, Pavitt S, Day P. HABIT-an early phase study to explore an oral health intervention delivered by health visitors to parents with young children aged 9-12 months: study protocol. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2018 Mar 27;4:68. doi: 10.1186/s40814-018-0261-0. eCollection 2018. PMID: 29610675; PMCID: PMC5870936.
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Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2018 Mar 27;4:68. doi: 10.1186/s40814-018-0261-0. eCollection 2018.

HABIT-an early phase study to explore an oral health intervention delivered by health visitors to parents with young children aged 9-12 months: study protocol.

Pilot and feasibility studies

Ieva Eskyte, Kara Gray-Burrows, Jenny Owen, Bianca Sykes-Muskett, Tim Zoltie, Susanne Gill, Victoria Smith, Rosemary McEachan, Zoe Marshman, Robert West, Sue Pavitt, Peter Day

Affiliations

  1. 1School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9LU UK.
  2. Highfield Health Visiting Team, Highfield Health Centre, Leeds, BD4 9QA UK.
  3. Allerton Health Visiting Team, Allerton Health Centre, Bradford, BD15 7NJ UK.
  4. 4Born in Bradford, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford, BD9 6RJ UK.
  5. 5School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TA UK.
  6. 6Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9LU UK.
  7. 7Dental Translational and Clinical Research Unit, School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9LU UK.

PMID: 29610675 PMCID: PMC5870936 DOI: 10.1186/s40814-018-0261-0

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Parental supervised brushing (PSB) when initiated in infancy can lead to long-term protective home-based oral health habits thereby reducing the risk of dental caries. However, PSB is a complex behaviour with many barriers reported by parents hindering its effective implementation. Within the UK, oral health advice is delivered universally to parents by health visitors and their wider teams when children are aged between 9 and 12 months. Nevertheless, there is no standardised intervention or training upon which health visitors can base this advice, and they often lack the specialised knowledge needed to help parents overcome barriers to performing PSB and limiting sugary foods and drinks.Working with health visitors and parents of children aged 9-24 months, we have co-designed oral health training and resources (Health Visitors delivering Advice in Britain on Infant Toothbrushing (HABIT) intervention) to be used by health visitors and their wider teams when providing parents of children aged 9-12 months with oral health advice.The aim of the study is to explore the acceptability of the HABIT intervention to parents and health visitors, to examine the mechanism of action and develop suitable objective measures of PSB.

METHODS/DESIGN: Six health visitors working in a deprived city in the UK will be provided with training on how to use the HABIT intervention. Health visitors will then each deliver the intervention to five parents of children aged 9-12 months. The research team will collect measures of PSB and dietary behaviours before and at 2 weeks and 3 months after the HABIT intervention. Acceptability of the HABIT intervention to health visitors will be explored through semi-structured diaries completed after each visit and a focus group discussion after delivery to all parents. Acceptability of the HABIT intervention and mechanism of action will be explored briefly during each home visit with parents and in greater details in 20-25 qualitative interviews after the completion of data collection. The utility of three objective measures of PSB will be compared with each other and with parental-self reports.

DISCUSSION: This study will provide essential information to inform the design of a definitive cluster randomised controlled trial.

TRIAL REGISTRATION: There is no database for early phase studies such as ours.

Keywords: Behaviour change; Caries; Children aged 9–12 months; Diet; HABIT intervention; Health visitors; Oral health advice; Parental supervised brushing; Parents

Conflict of interest statement

Ethical approval and research permissions have been successfully obtained from the Research Ethics Committee (17/YH/0301) (Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds East Research Ethics Committee), Health Resear

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