Educational intervention with information and practical components (theoretical oral health education plus practical skills training) for nursing staff and/or residents vs usual care: Dental state: No clinically important change in plaque index
- Population
- People with serious mental illness (all included participants had schizophrenia); majority aged 18 to 65 years per NIMH 1987, or with diagnosed schizophrenia, schizophrenia-like disorders, bipolar disorder, or serious affective disorder
- Intervention
- Educational intervention with information and practical components (theoretical oral health education plus practical skills training) for nursing staff and/or residents
- Comparison
- usual care
- Outcome
- Dental state: No clinically important change in plaque index
It is very uncertain whether oral health education (advice and training) changes dental state: No clinically important change in plaque index compared with standard care (oral health advice not specifically emphasised beyond… (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Oral health education (advice and training) vs Standard care (oral health advice not specifically emphasised beyond usual care) Dental state: No clinically important change in plaque index · People with serious mental illness (all included participants had schizophrenia); majority aged 18 to 65 years per… It is very uncertain whether oral health education (advice and training) changes dental state: No clinically important change in plaque index compared with standard care (oral health advice not specifically emphasised beyond… (very low certainty). Oral health education (advice and training) for people with serious mental illness (2016) · Cochrane All outcomes | MD -0.5 [-0.62, -0.38] | 1 study · 40 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oral health education (advice and training) for people with serious mental illness 2016 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2015-11 | Not listed | Not assessed |
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.