Evaluating Two Oral Health Video Interventions with Early Head Start Families
Table 1
Features of the Baby’s Oral Health and Baby’s First Smiles videos.
Didactic video Baby’s Oral Health (BOH)
Family-centered video Baby’s First Smiles (BFS)
Duration
19 min.
26 min.
Age Range
Prenatal through elementary
Prenatal through age three
Messaging
(1) Research-based messages, best practices
(1) Research-based messages, best practices
(2) Lecture format
(2) 1st person interview format of families with young children and family-centered professionals
(3) Offscreen narrator for entire video
(3) Interviewee messages and strategies emerged from interviews (parents provided 70% of messages, dentists provided 30% of messages)
(4) Script written based on didactic points written in a dentist’s voice
(4) Emphasis on peer-to-peer learning
(5) Emphasis on child development and family context
(6) Emphasis on life-long consequences
Visuals
(1) High quality video capturing visual examples of the messages from offcamera narrator
(1) High quality video capturing interviews with multiple parents and family-centered pediatric dentists including visual examples of the messages covered in interviews that focus on parents, families, and young children
(2) Interviews with families conducted in their homes and show daily routines
