“Smile healthy to your diabetes”: health coaching-based intervention for oral health and diabetes management

• Published in: Clinical oral investigations 2014-09, Vol.18 (7), p.1793-1801
• Main Authors: Cinar, Ayse Basak, Oktay, Inci, Schou, Lone
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Dentistry; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - complications; Female; Glycated Hemoglobin A - analysis; Health Behavior; Health Promotion - methods; Humans; Male; Medicine; Middle Aged; Oral Health; Original Article; Periodontal Index; Prospective Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Turkey
• ISSN: 1432-6981; 1436-3771
• DOI: 10.1007/s00784-013-1165-2

Objectives This study is the first to our knowledge that aims to evaluate the impact of Health Coaching (HC) compared to Health Education (HE) on oral health and diabetes management among patients with diabetes type II (DM2). Material and methods The study is part of a prospective intervention among randomly selected DM2 patients ( n  = 186), Istanbul, Turkey. The data analyzed were Community Periodontal Need Index (CPI) and HbA1c (glycated hemoglobin percentage). Data was collected initially and at the end of the intervention. The participants, both attending oral examinations and filing out questionnaires ( n  = 179), were allocated to HC ( n  = 77) and HE ( n  = 102) groups by means of a block table of random numbers. Results At baseline, there was no statistical difference between HC and HE groups in terms of CPI and HbA1c ( p  > 0.05). At postintervention, the HC group had significantly lower CPI and HbA1C than the HE group ( p