The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to compare the knowledge, attitudes, and oral health self-efficacy in self-sufficient elders aged over 60 years of 4 cities of La Araucanía región, Chile. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Can the development and implementation of a teledentistry strategy focused on community-dwelling older adults of the La Araucanía region improve participants' knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy in oral health? * Could this teledentistry strategy have acceptability greater than 80%? Participants will receive a dental-medical-geriatric diagnosis in a mobile dental clinic supported by a web platform called Teleplatform of Geriatric Dental Specialties (TEGO) and individual oral health education. The researchers will compare a comparison group that will receive face-to-face individual oral health education with an intervention group, called tele-education group, that will receive educational reinforcement through a teledentistry strategy mediated by oral health educational videos sent via WhatsApp; to see if there are differences in the knowledge, attitudes, and oral health self-efficacy between the groups.
Age range
60 Years
Sex
ALL
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Change in oral health knowledge
Timeframe: Change from baseline oral health knowledges at 6 weeks
Change in oral health attitudes
Timeframe: Change from baseline oral health attitudes at 6 weeks
Change in oral health self-efficacy
Timeframe: Change from baseline oral health self-efficacy at 6 weeks