{UAH} Nursery schools to tackle oral health inequalities

Improving toothbrushing rates in Scottish nursery schools to tackle oral health inequalities.

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  Dr Sherriff
  Dr Gnich
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  Sunday, January 31, 2016
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  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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Project Description

Improvements in the oral health of 5 year old Scottish children over the past decade have largely been attributed to the national supervised toothbrushing program within nursery schools across Scotland, a core component of the Childsmile program (http://www.childsmile.org). Although there have been improvements in oral health across the population, inequalities persist, with those children living in more deprived communities experiencing a greater burden of disease than their peers living in more affluent areas, and more needs to be done to narrow the gap. The Scottish Government has recently introduced new early learning and childcare entitlements to children as young as 2 years of age whose parents are in receipt of qualifying benefits. This could mean an additional 20000 more vulnerable or disadvantaged 2 year olds entitled to nursery care throughout Scotland. There is an opportunity as this initiative is rolled out across Scotland to design and evaluate an intervention to support and further improve the Childsmile supervised toothbrushing program within nurseries, particularly for this most vulnerable group of children.

This PhD will design, conduct and evaluate a pilot intervention study to improve oral health (and reduce inequalities) through improved supervised toothbrushing (frequency and quality) in children attending nursery schools, with a particular focus on the very young children from more disadvantaged backgrounds.

You will develop skills in epidemiology, public health, trials design, statistics and qualitative research and evaluation, and will be given training in other more generic and transferrable research skills through our college's Graduate School (http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvls/graduateschool/ ). You will be based within the Community Oral Health Research Group within Glasgow Dental School (http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/dental/research/) and will be part of a thriving and active community of postgraduate research students.

Funding Notes

You should hold a good first degree and preferably a Master's degree awarded by a UK University, or an overseas Master's of equivalent standard, provided that the Master's degree is in an appropriate cognate area (epidemiology, psychology, public health, dentistry) and that the Master's degree included training in research and the execution of a research project.

Stipend: £14057 for 3.5 years.

Start date: 6 January 2016

When applying, please search for 'MVLS - PhD' and enter the project title in the free text box.

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