A Theory-Based Digital Intervention to Improve Maternal Oral Health Behaviors for Young Children: Quasi-Experimental Study
Mei Zhao, Min Liu, Shiyu Wang, Xiaoyue Zhang, Chun Chang, Qingping Yun, Lorraine Buis · 2026
Read A Theory-Based Digital Intervention to Improve Maternal Oral Health Behaviors for Young Children: Quasi-Experimental Study by Mei Zhao, Min Liu, Shiyu Wang, Xiaoyue Zhang, Chun Chang, Qingping Yun, Lorraine Buis (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13197111.txt.
Description
Mei Zhao, Lorraine Buis, and five co-authors tested phone-based coaching for mothers in Beijing, in work from twenty twenty-six. The coaching drew on the health belief model, which says people act when they feel risk and trust the steps. Care centers that took up a dental referral scheme formed the test group; the rest gave standard care.
The study followed six hundred forty-eight mother-child pairs for a year. At six months, helped tooth brushing was up by about ten points in the test group. By twelve months that gap had shrunk and lost force. Dental visits, though, were much higher in the test group at one year. Night feeds and sugar intake did not shift, so gains may fade without fresh support.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mei Zhao, Min Liu, Shiyu Wang, Xiaoyue Zhang, Chun Chang, Qingping Yun, Lorraine Buis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |