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Evaluation of collaborative oral health care planning between older adults and personnel from public dental care and municipal care organizations: a study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled study in Sweden
University West, Department of Health Sciences, Section for health promotion and care sciences.ORCID iD: /0000-0002-9739-2287
Department of Cariology, Institute of Odontology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg (SWE).
Centre for Gerodontology, Public Dental Service, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg (SWE); Department of Behavioural and Community Dentistry, Institute of Odontology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg (SWE).
Centre for Gerodontology, Public Dental Service, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg (SWE); Department of Behavioural and Community Dentistry, Institute of Odontology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg (SWE).
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2025 (English)In: Trials, E-ISSN 1745-6215, Vol. 26, no 1, article id 57Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Background: Patient participation is key in person-centred care, emphasizing individual choices in treatment. Oral health, integral to overall well-being, is sometimes a neglected part of health. This intervention introduces a novel approach to strengthen person-centred care in homecare settings, employing collaborative, interprofessional teamwork and shared documentation across care organizations. This protocol outlines the design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Sweden, comparing traditional oral assessments with an interorganizational, team-based oral health care planning model facilitated by a shared digital platform for documentation. The overall aim is to evaluate a person-centred interprofessional and interorganizational model for oral health care planning supported by a digital platform to enable healthy ageing.

Methods/design: The intervention, co-designed with older adults, academic institutions, healthcare providers in public dental care, and municipal organizations, will undergo ethical approval. The RCT will randomize older adults, dental hygienists (DHs) and nursing assistants (NAs) into two groups. The intervention group will attend a two-day workshop on a person-centred, three-step team-based model, while the control group will continue using standard procedures. Thereafter, the three-step collaborative model will be compared to standard procedures. Primary outcomes will be measured using the Revised Oral Assessment Guide (ROAG) and the General Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI). Secondary outcomes include health economic evaluations, participation rates and quality of care assessments. Qualitative studies from theoretical perspectives of change and learning based on interviews with key stakeholders will be conducted in both the test and control groups.

Discussion: Taking a co-produced approach where theory and practice shape the research iteratively, a person-centred health care planning model supported by a shared digital platform for home settings is evaluated. Anticipated outcomes include improved oral assessments and a deeper understanding of effective person-centred care practices. The co-produced approach of the intervention is also expected to further develop knowledge regarding co-production within domains of healthy ageing from an oral health perspective. As such, the intervention shapes and fosters co-produced person-centred care and healthy ageing.

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Springer Nature, 2025. Vol. 26, no 1, article id 57
Keywords [en]
Healthy ageing, Integrated healthcare systems, Oral health, Patient-centred care, Work-integrated learning
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Odontology Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy Nursing
Research subject
NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, Nursing science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-23038DOI: 10.1186/s13063-025-08753-6ISI: 001424534100002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85219102138OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-23038DiVA, id: diva2:1949137
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Region Västra Götaland, 937918Region Västra Götaland, 942302
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This research was funded by the Health Promotion Research Funding (VGFOUREG-937918, VGFOUREG-966932), Region Västra Götaland, Sweden, and the Local Research and Development Board of Göteborg and Södra Bohuslän (VGFOUGSB-942302), Region Västra Götaland, Sweden

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06310798. Registered on 13 March 2024.

Available from: 2025-04-01 Created: 2025-04-01 Last updated: 2025-09-30
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1. Oral Health Care Planning: A conceptual model based oncollaboration andperson-centred care
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Munhälsoplanering. : En konceptuell modell baserad påsamverkan och person-centrerad vård
Abstract [sv]

Oral hälsa är avgörande för allmän hälsa. I både teori och praktik tycks dock aspekter gällande oral hälsa vara svåra att integrera med övergripande vårdprocesser. Särskilt äldre personer med risk för skörhet kan drabbas av dålig oral hälsa, vilket leder till minskad livskvalitet. Globalt har hinder för integrering av oral hälsa och allmän hälsa konstaterats på mikro-, meso- och makronivå i samhället. Därmed är det indicerat att utforska dessa tidigare beskrivna hinder med hjälp av teorier och praktiker för lärande vid munhälsoplanering. Bristande oral hälsa kan till stor del förebyggas, och en förutsättning för det tycks vara lärande. Syftet med denna avhandling är således att utveckla en konceptuell modell för personcentrerad munhälsoplanering genom arbetsintegrerat lärande. Baserat på teorin om expansivt lärande och en övergripande aktionsforskningsansats, samlades data in genom tre interventioner som byggde på samverkan mellan äldre personer och personal från tandvård och kommunal omsorg. Resultatet baseras på mixade metoder, inklusive totalt 50 individuella intervjuer (Studie I, II och III) med äldre personer (n=24), tandhygienister (n=13) och sjuksköterskor (n=13) i kommunal verksamhet. Därutöver ingick registerdata, en kursutvärdering samt protokoll från multi-professionella möten i kommunal verksamhet (Studie II). Dessutom omfattar data transkriptioner från 24 teambaserade munhälsobedömningar som genomfördes i äldre personers hemmiljö (Studie III). I Studie IV föreslås en plan för en utvärdering av en ny personcentrerad, multi-professionell arbetsmodell för munhälsobedömningar i hemmiljö. Interventionerna, som bygger på samverkan, verkar främja en ny typ av aktörskap som gör det möjligt för deltagare att lära sig vad som är värdefullt för olika aktörer. En förutsättning för detta är att på olika sätt ha tillgång till ett gemensamt område där kunskap kan integreras. Med de förutsättningarna, kan lärande i samverkan möjliggöras där deltagare kan hjälpas åt att återuppfinna sig själva och vidga sina egna och andras horisonter. vii Baserat på de övergripande resultaten föreslås slutligen en konceptuell modell som innehåller nyckelfaktorer för personcentrerad munhälsoplanering i samverkan. Modellen representerar alla deltagares unika kunskaper, formad av sin omgivning. Varje deltagare bidrar med sin egen förståelse, formad av sitt sammanhang och sin historia. Deltagarnas kollektiva, gemensamma förståelse har potential att influera munhälsoplanering genom att skräddarsy den till att möta varje deltagares specifika behov, värderingar och preferenser.

Abstract [en]

The body of evidence about how oral health and general health are intertwined is growing. However, aspects of oral health care seem to be difficult to integrate with general health care processes. Especially older adults with frailty are at risk of poor oral health and thereby also reduced quality of life. Globally, barriers to integration of oral health care aspect in health care processes have been identified on micro-, meso- and macro-levels. Notably, the prerequisites for integration all seem to rely on learning. Therefore, much could be gained from approaching these barriers to integration through theories and practices of learning when doing health care planning. As such, the aim of this thesis is to develop a conceptual model for person-centred oral health care planning through work-integrated learning. Using the theory of expansive learning and with an overall action research approach, data was gathered through three interventions based on collaboration between older adults and staff in dental and municipal care. Mixed methods we reused including individual interviews (Study I, II and III), totalling 50 interviews with older adults (n=24), dental hygienists (n=13) and nurses (n=13) in municipal care organisations. Additional data include data from a Swedish quality register, a course evaluation and protocols from multi-professional meetings in municipal care organisations (Study II) as well as transcriptions from 24 teambased oral assessments conducted in older adults’ home settings (Study III). In Study IV, a plan for an evaluation of a new person-centred, multiprofessional work model for oral assessments in home settings is put forward. The interventions based on collaboration appear to foster a novel type of agency, allowing all participants to understand what holds value for each party. A prerequisite for this is to, in different ways, share translational areas for knowledge to be integrated. Under these conditions, learning can be characterised as expansive and empowering, prompting participants to reinvent themselves and broaden their own and others’ horizons. From the overall findings a conceptual model with key determinants to facilitate person-centred, collaborative oral health care planning is proposed. It schematically represents the role of all participants and their unique context. Each participant brings their own understanding, shaped and created by their contexts and history. The participants’ shared, collective understanding has the potential to influence oral health care planning by tailoring it to meet the specific needs, values and preferences of each participant.

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Trollhättan: University West, 2025. p. 84
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PhD Thesis: University West ; 75
Keywords
change; collaboration; expansive learning; health; interprofessional learning; older adults; oral health; person-centred care; work-integrated learning, arbetsintegrerat lärande; expansivt lärande; förändring; hälsa; interprofessionellt lärande; person-centrering; samverkan; äldre personer
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Nursing Odontology
Research subject
Work-Integrated Learning; NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, Nursing science
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urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-23299 (URN)978-91-89969-25-4 (ISBN)978-91-89969-24-7 (ISBN)
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2025-05-28, J111, Högskolan Väst, Gustava Melins Gata 2, 461 85, Trollhättan, 13:00 (English)
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