Tobacco Dependence Treatment Education for Dental Students
Condition: Smoking
MeSH terms: Tobacco Use Disorder
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      This study determines if there is a difference in dental students' attitudes, perceived
      barriers, subjective norms, perceived skills, self-efficacy, intentions to provide cessation
      treatment, and cessation knowledge in those students receiving a tobacco cessation lecture
      along with practice sessions using standardized patients and those students receiving only a
      tobacco cessation lecture. The study determines if dental students' use of tobacco affects
      their intent to provide cessation treatment to patients, and if the time between receiving
      the lecture and participating in the practice sessions using standardized patients makes a
      difference in dental students' attitudes, perceived barriers, subjective norms. perceived
      skills, self-efficacy, intentions to provide cessation treatment, and cessation knowledge.
    

Detailed description: 
      The experimental study has a pretest-posttest design. It evaluates the changes to dental
      students' attitudes, perceived barriers, subjective norms, perceived skills, self-efficacy,
      intentions to provide cessation treatment, and tobacco cessation knowledge between those
      students receiving a lecture along with practice sessions using standardized patients and
      those students receiving only a lecture. Dental students will be invited to complete two
      questionnaires. The control group of dental students will complete the first questionnaire
      before the lecture and the second questionnaire after the lecture. The experimental group of
      dental students will complete the first questionnaire before the lecture and the second
      questionnaire after the lecture and the practice and debriefing sessions. Subjects will
      include 120 first year dental students in an introductory course to clinical dentistry. The
      cessation training is a required activity in the course. Students are divided into small
      groups according to their bench or lab numbers. These numbers are assigned to the student
      based on the alphabetical order of their name. The eligibility criteria is: 1) Must be a
      first year dental student in Introduction to Clinical Dentistry 1 at the University of
      Louisville, and 2) Must be willing to volunteer to complete pre- and post-questionnaires
      about the cessation treatment educational program. The exclusion criteria is: Subject is not
      willing to give consent to complete the pre- and post- questionnaire.
    

Intervention name(s): Counseling practice sessions
Intervention type(s): Other
Intervention description(s): Dental students will complete the first questionnaire before a tobacco cessation lecture and the second questionnaire after the lecture, counseling practice sessions using standardized patients and a debriefing session.
Other intervention name(s): Tobacco cessation treatment education; Tobacco cessation counseling; Smoking cessation counseling; Tobacco dependence treatment; Standardized patients
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Prevention
Keywords: tobacco cessation treatment; standardized patients; dental students; tobacco cessation treatment education