Parenting intervention for caries prevention – the DR-BNI

This Hands-on Workshop provides a unique opportunity for clinicians and scientists who are involved in behavioural approaches to caries prevention to collaborate internationally. The Dental RECUR Brief Negotiated Interview (DR-BNI) is a single therapeutic conversation of around 30 minutes informed by motivational interviewing with embedded behaviour change techniques, using a personalised goal-centered approach. The DR-BNI supports change in family habits in favour of promoting healthy routines. It has been successfully evaluated in an RCT with a 29% reduction in the relative risk of new caries in high- risk children (7-9 years old, two years post intervention). In preparation for the workshop, participants will have access to online training in the DR-BNI and reading materials that will equip those registered for the workshop to deliver an evidence-based therapeutic conversation to families of children with dental caries. During the workshop, participants can hear from the developers (health psychologist and dentist) of the intervention and how it was developed and evaluated. This will be followed by hands-on training including role-play facilitated by the developers and two behavioural scientists trained in the delivery of the intervention. Participants will receive feedback on their delivery of the DR-BNI using a bespoke fidelity monitoring tool completed by the DR-BNI trainers. An output from the workshop will be the development of a consensus paper authored by all workshop participants who complete the training and discussion. The latter will be informed by a nominal group technique. This paper will be submitted for publication.