RAISED In Yorkshire: Research Activity In Schools Evaluating Dental health
Paediatric Dentistry
The intervention consists of: • Three interactive, classroom based oral health workshops, delivered by trained RiY-Student Research Fellows (RiY-SRFs) oral health champions. • Further reinforcement teaching activities, including for example the YUK-Oral Bugs sub project. The consented Year 7 students will be randomly allocated into 2 arms; intervention and control group. This will roughly be a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio (as it is a feasibility trial, it will be a convenience proportion based pragmatically on the schools' form structure, timetabling and availability of our team). The intervention group will receive the RiY interactive classroom teaching, from the RiY-SRFs, consisting of an introduction session and three interactive workshops, which provide small group teaching and practical demonstrations to reinforce key oral hygiene messages. The introduction session has been designed for use in this study to ensure the oral health messages are clear and consistent with the research outcomes. Volunteer foundation dentists will train the Year 12 RiY-SRFs to deliver the oral health programme. The workshops content broadly covers the topics: • Oral hygiene with demonstration of brushing technique • Being sugar smart • Understanding the importance of going to the dentist The control group will receive current standard of care with regards to oral health education and a delayed RiY lesson post final data collection period. This is necessary to assess any added value the intervention provides. All teaching staff will have access to any resources delivered to the intervention group, post final oral health data collection. This ensures all pupils benefit from provision of oral health support. To facilitate evaluation of the programme and explore added benefits to the RiY-SRFs, they will be invited to provide written optional consent to undergo dental assessments (consent for saliva sampling will be undertaken as part of the YUK-Oral Bugs sub-study). This will allo
Selection of the schools: 1. Schools based in West Yorkshire. Ideally have an integrated or linked 6th form college. If it doesn’t have 6th form college,will rely on partnership with a participating school. 2. Have free school meal eligibility criteria of 13 and above (as a marker of deprivation of students). 3. Ofsted rating of the school showing ideally good,excellent or outstanding. But consideration of school who are improving is a possibility. 4. Willingness of schools to contract for data sharing agreement of basic demographics of pupils FSM and education attainment level (low medium high or other similar classification. Selection of 6th form peer educators: 1. Year 12 (13) students who are interested in joining the RiY enrichment. 2. Self-select with an interest in RiY or careers on STEM or education. 3. Consent and parental consent to take part in the programme. Key stage 3 pupils: 1. All year 7 students from participating forms that are medically fit to participate and can assent to participate. 2. Must understand spoken English (or have a support worker available to assist). 3. Must have written parental consent.
1. Unwilling to consent,participate,severe physical disability,unsafe airways,allergy to any materials being used. 2. Any KS3 pupils who have a medical concern e.g.,nil by mouth,severe physical disability and immunocompromised. 3. School assistant unavailable to support students who do not speak/understand English