Oral Health Education for Children: Development of a Serious Game with a User-Centered Design Approach.

Children can learn efficiently with well-designed serious games. The use of applications to promote health has proliferated, but there is a lack of scientific studies on educational games in oral health. We developed the Brazilian version of a British and Jordanian oral health education game for children from the perspectives of Brazilian specialists and users.

Oral health status and practices of 6- to 7-year-old children in Amman, Jordan: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Dental caries affects the majority of children in Jordan, with some evidence of its prevalence steadily increasing. Previous studies have shown that families struggle to establish good oral health practices. The aim of this study was to evaluate the current oral health status and practices of 6- to7-year-old children in Amman, Jordan.

A Video-Game-Based Oral Health Intervention in Primary Schools-A Randomised Controlled Trial.

Background: Poor oral health practices and high levels of dental caries have been reported among children in the developing world. Video games have been successful in promoting oral health in children. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of an oral-health-education video game on children's dietary knowledge and dietary and toothbrushing practices; Methods: Two Schools in Amman, Jordan were randomly selected and assigned to either intervention or control.

Failure on all fronts: Qualitative analysis of the oral health care experience in individuals with intellectual disability.

Aim: To explore the oral health care experience of individuals with intellectual disability and their families.

Methods: A qualitative approach utilising face-to-face semi-structured interviews with parents of individuals with intellectual disability. All interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim, and Qualitative Framework Analysis was used to present the results.

Can oral health education be delivered to high-caries-risk children and their parents using a computer game? - A randomised controlled trial.

Background: Families of children undergoing general anaesthesia (GA) for caries management requested that oral health advice is delivered using audio-visual media.

Objective: To compare an oral health education computer game to one-to-one education.

Design: A blind randomised controlled trial of 4- to 10-year-old children scheduled for GA due to caries.

An oral health education video game for high caries risk children: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease of childhood in the world. Many children develop caries early in their lives, and go on to develop further caries and sepsis as they grow up, indicating failure in prevention. As a result, many end up requiring general anaesthesia to undergo treatment for a disease that is completely preventable.

Failure on all fronts: general dental practitioners' views on promoting oral health in high caries risk children--a qualitative study.

Background: Despite overall improvements in oral health, a large number of children in United Kingdom (UK) are affected by dental caries; and the implementation of oral health promotion in some families remains a challenge. As such, children from those families suffer high caries rates, and are frequently referred for tooth extraction under General Anaesthesia (GA), one of the commonest reasons for paediatric hospital admissions. The aim of this investigation is to explore referring primary care General Dental Practitioners' (GDPs) views and experiences in trying to promote better oral health for those children.

The Arabic version of the modified dental anxiety scale. Psychometrics and normative data for 15-16 year olds.

Objective: To prepare an Arabic version of the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) and provide normative information including evidence to support the validity of the measure.

Methods: The MDAS was translated into Arabic and back-translated into English. Data collection took place in Amman, Jordan from March 2009 to March 2010.