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Behavioural intervention to promote the uptake of planned care in urgent dental care attenders:a feasibility randomised controlled trial

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • الموضوع:
      2024
    • Collection:
      Discovery - University of Dundee Online Publications
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      BACKGROUND: Urgent dental care may be the only place where many people, especially vulnerable groups, access care. This presents an opportunity for delivery of a behavioural intervention promoting planned dental visiting, which may help address one of the factors contributing to a socio-economic gradient in oral health. Although we know that cueing events such as having a cancer diagnosis may create a 'teachable moment' stimulating positive changes in health behaviour, we do not know whether delivering an opportunistic intervention in urgent dental care is feasible and acceptable to patients. METHODS: The feasibility study aimed to recruit 60 patients in a Dental Hospital and dental practices delivering urgent care within and outside working hours. Follow-up was by telephone, e mail and post over 4 months. RESULTS: Although the recruitment window was shortened because of COVID-19, of 47 patients assessed for eligibility, 28 were enrolled (70.1% of screened patients provided consent). A relatively high proportion were from disadvantaged backgrounds (46.4%, 13/28 receiving State benefits). Retention was 82.1% (23/28), which was also the rate of completion of the Oral Health Impact Profile co-primary outcome. The other primary outcome involved linking participant details at recruitment, with centrally-held data on services provided, with 84.6% (22/26) records partly or fully successfully matched. All intervention participants received at least some of the intervention, although we identified aspects of dental nurse training which would improve intervention fidelity. CONCLUSIONS: Despite recruitment being impacted by the pandemic, when the majority of clinical trials experienced reduced rates of recruitment, we found a high recruitment and consenting rate, even though patients were approached opportunistically to be enrolled in the trial and potentially receive an intervention. Retention rates were also high even though a relatively high proportion had a low socio-economic background. Therefore, even though patients ...
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      application/pdf
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1186/s12903-024-03942-2
    • الدخول الالكتروني :
      https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/e4fe6196-3497-455e-a1d4-dbeec42c6f51
      https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-024-03942-2
      https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/files/118288290/s12903-024-03942-2.pdf
    • Rights:
      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.73991B5C