ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Oral Health
Sec. Oral Health Promotion
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/froh.2025.1538886
This article is part of the Research TopicOral Health and Care in the Elderly Population and Aging SocietyView all 4 articles
Application and Effectiveness of Experiential Education Combined with Health Coaching Techniques in Extended Care for Elderly Patients with Dental Implants
Provisionally accepted
- 1Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, Changsha, China
- 2Hunan Chest Hospital, Changsha, Anhui Province, China
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Objective: Experiential education (EE) and health coaching techniques (HCT) were proved to be effective in health management. This study investigated the effectiveness of EE combined with HCT in extended care for elderly patients with dental implants.Methods: A total of 90 elderly patients who received implant restoration were randomly divided into intervention group (IG) and control group (CG). CG received standard health education. IG received EE, HCT and standard health education.Periodontal conditions of peri-implants (plaque Index, PLI; sulcus bleeding index, SBI; gingival Index, GI) were assessed at 1-, 3-, and 6-months. Oral health self-efficacy and implant survival rates after 6 months were compared between two groups.Results: No significant differences in periodontal indices were observed between groups at 1 and 3 months post-intervention. After 6 months of intervention, the experimental group showed significantly lower PLI, mSBI, and GI scores relative to the control group (P < 0.05). IG also showed an improvement in oral health self-efficacy compared to the CG (P< 0.05). The implant survival rate in the IG was higher than in the CG after 6 months, but the difference was not significant.EE combined with HCT improves oral health self-efficacy and periodontal health in elderly patients with dental implants.
Keywords: Dental Implants, Experiential education, health coaching techniques, Geriatric care, Nursing
Received: 03 Dec 2024; Accepted: 03 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Huang, Gong, Chen, Chen and Liu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Fanghua Gong, Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, Changsha, China
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