Comparing the effect of two educational interventions including brochure or film on the awareness and self-reported performance of pregnant women regarding oral and dental health

To compare the effect of two educational interventions on the awareness and self-reported performance of pregnant women regarding oral and dental health.

semi-experimental clinical trial, two parallel intervention groups, 70 samples. Randomization will be performed for each center using SAS software version 9, and for randomization of individuals in each center into two groups, a 4-block permutation method will be used.

Setting: Private women's and maternity clinics in Islamshahr. Conduct: After random distribution between the two intervention groups, the first intervention will be received at the clinic. After that, both video content and brochures will be sent again to mothers every month through social networks. The awareness and self-reported performance of mothers in both groups will be assessed using an online questionnaire, once before the intervention, immediately after the intervention at the clinic, and three times at one-month, three-month, and six-month intervals after the intervention. Blinding: Single-blind, the data analyst will be unaware of the interventions.

Inclusion criteria: Pregnant women who have access to one of the social networks (WhatsApp, Telegram, Eitaa, etc.). Exclusion criteria: Individuals who are in emergency situations or have unfavorable general conditions, or do not provide written informed consent.

Group 1: Receiving educational intervention in the form of a text with images through a brochure. Group 2: Receiving educational intervention in the form of audio-visual content through a video.

Awareness of dental and oral health; self-reported dental and oral health performance.

Considering each district of Islamshahr as a cluster, clusters are selected, and then within each cluster, a private women's and maternity clinic is selected using simple random sampling. To randomize individuals in each center, a 4-block permutation block randomization method is used.

The data collection tool is a self-administered anonymous questionnaire and only the participants know the confidential code which he/she writes in the baseline and follow up questionnaire to enable assessment of individual changes. All the data will be remained anonymous and confidential to the statistical analyst.