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Parental consent and patient participation play a critical role in the success of a dental sealant program. Oral health literacy and positive health messages are vital to gaining participation in a school based sealant program. This webinar will lead you in the steps in building rapport and support from key school personnel, as well as, provide you with creative health promotional strategies and oral health literacy tools used to improve participation.
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Smiles Across America Webinar Series
Date: 10/13/2015
Building Consent Rates for a School-Based
Dental Sealant Program
HOUSEKEEPING INFORMATION
• Please remember to MUTE your phone.
• Questions are welcome! We’ll allow 10-15 minutes after the presentation for questions.• Questions will be accepted in writing through the control
panel on the upper right hand of your screen.
• Submit questions at any time; we will address them at the end of the presentation.
• Webinar is being recorded; for rebroadcast on OHA’s website – OralHealthAmerica.org
• Your feedback is important to us. Please take our brief webinar evaluation after this session; link will be sent via email.
OUR MISSION
Oral Health America’s mission is to change lives by
connecting communities
with resources to drive access to care, increase
health literacy, and advocate for policies that
improve overall health through better oral health for
all Americans, especially those most vulnerable.
OHA PRIORITIES
ADVOCACYHEALTH
LITERACYACCESS
OHA’s Programs and Campaigns are designed to improve
access to care, oral health literacy and policies that
prioritize the impact of oral health on the overall health of all
Americans – particularly those most vulnerable.
Campaigns for Oral Health Equity
Educate the public, including policy makers, about the importance of oral health for overall health
Emphasize the need to prioritize oral disease alongside other serious health conditions
Advocate for policies that positively impact programs and stakeholders
Current campaigns include:
toothwisdom.org Demonstration
Projects
Professional
Symposia
Advocacy Health Education &
Communications
Vision
We provide support and resources to agencies and organizations
working on oral health initiatives for children and families.
We work to bridge partnerships between both public and private
entities to improve access to oral healthcare.
We’re in the business of providing evidence based assistance to
healthcare providers and community leaders to improve oral
health.
We focus on direct services to improve oral health outcomes.
Play a leading role in Community Dental Health in and
around the Greater Tampa Bay Area
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Mission
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Values
Having the courage to shape a better future, leveraging
collective genius, being real, and being accountable and
committed.
Improving Parental Consent Rates in your School based Dental Sealant Program
Lessons learned from failure.
No consents, no care.
Awareness
Collect ’best practices’
Find evidence to support success.
Assess theories or models
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Develop oral health promotion plans and
health literacy strategies.
Execute plans!
Plan and Implement
Evalulate and Repeat!
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• Do you collect consent rate data?
• Do you report to school and dental providers
immediately after each school event?
• Do you make yearly comparisons of individual
schools success?
• What processes do you have in place to improve
outcomes?
• Who evaluates your success?
How do you account for your
success?
What’s your message ?
Do you know and
understand your target
population.
What message are you
trying to convey?
Do you use a tool that
measures your clarity of
your oral health
information?
How do you measure your communcation success?
Value
Messages
Action
Knowledge
Messages
CDC – Clear communication widget
www.cdc.gov/ccindex/widget.html
What tools
are in your tool box?
Tools used to build clear health
messages
Health Literacy The degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain,
communicate, process and understand basic health information
and services to make appropriate health decisions
- Helps people find information and services
- Communicate about health and healthcare
- Understand how to provide useful information and
services
- Decide which information and services work best
for different situations and people so they can act
upon it.
National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center,
Georgetown University
• http://mchoralhealth.org
‘School-Based and School Linked Oral Health Services for
Children and Adolescents’
Utilize evidence based resources:
“Pain and Suffering Shouldn’t be an Option”
Efforts began in 2006 by Suncoast CHC. Then again by
Hillsborough County Health Department in 2008-10.
- Initially both denied access to district schools
GTBOHC members continued to advocate for access to
serve at risk, underserved, vulnerable children in our
schools.
Collaborative efforts from our community partners:
- Suncoast Community Health Center
- Tampa Family Health Center
- Hillsborough County BOCC Head Start
- Hillsborough County School Board
- RSA Consulting
Now in 104 Title 1 schools throughout HC
Dental Sealant ProgramHillsborough County
Keep it simple.
• Make consent forms simple, one page using plain language and good white space.
Check out CDC Clear Communication Index/widget
www.cdc.gov/ccindex/
• Offer consents in all languages in your demographics. Know your audience.
Stand out from the crowd.
• Print consents in or pastel colored paper. Avoid white paper that gets lost in
the shuffle of paperwork or neon colored paper that can be difficult to read and do not
scan well into Electronic Health Records.
Consent smarts: Format and function
Advertise often and early.
Distribute consents at the beginning of the year and again two weeks prior to the
scheduled event and/or during the classroom education visit.
Speak clearly.
Clearly communicate one week deadline from distribution of consents to collecting
consents.
X Marks the spot.
Highlight (in bold color) where the parent/caregiver must sign the consent.
Did I miss something?
Be believable.
• Lead your discussions with Principal/Assistant Principal with enthusiasm and passion. Let them
see your sincerity to help their children lead a healthier more productive life by reducing tooth
decay with sealants. Passion is contagious! Facts are fine but feeling is believing.
Ask for help.
• Ask Principals/Assistant Principals, Teachers and Social Workers to help boost parental/caregiver
consents. Be clear and specific.
Go on a field trip and bring new friends.
• Meet with school social workers and/or nurses to discuss any issues in finding children oral health
services. Arrange a tour to visit your local dental providers brick and mortar health facilities.
Oral Health PromotionMeetings with school staff:
Ask for recognition.
• Ask school staff if they have any reward programs/incentives for good behavior.
Use school 'bucks’ toward recognizing children for returning consent
forms. Show your support, donate to school store
• Ask for extra classroom privileges for returned consents
• Purchase colorful, printed pencils for teachers to distribute for each consent
returned.
Be full of wonder.
• Ask teachers about their curriculum. Find any common themes
that coincide with their students studies.
i.e. Wild about . . . math. Wild about . . . reading.
'Wild about . . . teeth!’
Oral Health PromotionMeetings with school staff continued:
Be inquisitive.
• Learn how teachers communicate with parents.
• Does the school have a school wide newsletter, email and/or website they can use to
announce the program?
• Do your teachers send monthly reports that could include a message about the
dental sealant program?
• Does the school have a robo messaging system to announce programs? Email,
phone or texting?
Stick to it.
• Create stickers for teachers to distribute the day before event. Stickers are for kids to
wear home to remind Mom and Dad that Dental Day is tomorrow.
Communication beyond the consentPut a WILD in your smile!
From: Chante Miller [email protected]
Subject: Mojo
Date: October 12, 2015 at 1:19 PM
To: Kim Herremans [email protected]
Best Regards, Chante Miller's iPhone
Know your target audience
Be child like.
• Keep your audience in
mind. Observe and learn
what motivates children.
• Create fun and engaging
oral health classroom
education materials.
Be a friend to have a friend.
• Familiarize kids with the
dental provider
• Demo personal protective
gear, mask, gloves on
puppet and yourself
Alter Perceptions of new situations.
(Rickettes, M., Professional Safety Training, May 2015)
Using stories to teach health
Stories capture
attention
Stimulate
reflection.
Trigger powerful
mental images.
Read aloud
• Use a story to engage your audience.
• A story that will lead the child through the process of getting a sealant.
i.e. MoJo's Sealant Day.
Make homework fun.
• Give a child their own activity book that tells the story of getting sealants.
• Use animation to get more interest in staying engaged with the text.
Homework teaches more then just the child.
• Children are instructed to read 'Mojo's Sealant Day' activity book aloud to their
parents. This has helped parents to get an overview of the process and importance of
sealants and improve their oral health literacy.
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A good story is long remembered
Using stories to communicate oral health
Develop and
print activity
books
Assign ‘Special
homework’ to
read aloud to
parents.
Distribute activity
books to
children.
Increase
access to care
for children
Gain both
parent and
childs
understanding
of dental
sealants.
Literacy
improves
willingness to
consent for care.
Oral Health Literacy
• Recent evidence supports a link between caregivers’ health
literacy and their children’s health and use of health services.
• Caregivers play a pivotal role in children’s oral health and
care.
• Very little is published or written on oral health literacy and
parental consent.
Quick Facts:
Mojo sits in the dental chair,He knows the hygienist will take good care.
Mojo Monkey likes to eat. He wants dental sealants to protect his teeth.
His teeth are brushed to get them ready,Now he sits good and steady.
He brushes and flosses twice a day,To keep the cavity germs away.
Mojo’s excited about his trip to the dental bus,So he promises not to fuss.
Work to bring your community together
to gain support for our kids
Your own footer
’When you go out into the world,
watch for traffic, hold hands and stick
together’
Robert Fulgrum, author ‘All I ever knew, I
learned in Kindergarten’
Question and Answer Session
• Questions are welcome! This session may last for 10-15 minutes.
• Write your questions in your control panel on the upper right hand of your screen.
• Submit questions at any time.