Clinical trial NCT04166214: Oral Pathology Asynchronous Telementoring Pilot Study
Official title: Oral Pathology Asynchronous Telementoring Pilot Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Oral Cancer
Lead sponsor: NYU Langone Health
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-11-18
Enrollment: 51
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of the proposed research project is to evaluate and enhance the feasibility and acceptability of integrating a tele-mentoring component into the identification of oral lesions at the 6 dental clinics of Family Health Centers at NYU Langone (FHC), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Brooklyn, NY.

Detailed description: The tele-mentoring intervention involves training dental faculty members and residents to use intraoral cameras to take photographs of oral lesions and place them in the Dentrix electronic health record (EHR), along with descriptions of the lesions. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study will evaluate and enhance the feasibility and acceptability of integrating a tele-mentoring component into the identification of oral lesions at the 6 FHC dental clinics.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Dental patients will be eligible for study participation if they meet the following criteria:

1. Greater than or equal to 18 years of age.
2. Live in any of the 5 boroughs of New York, NY and visit a participating FHC dental clinic for routine dental care.
3. Able and willing to provide informed consent, have their oral lesion(s) photograph(s) and accompanying data entered into the Dentrix EHR, and participate in an exit interview.

Dental providers will be eligible for study participation if they meet the following criteria:

1. Greater than or equal to 18 years of age.
2. Be employed as a dentist or placed as a dental resident at a participating FHC dental clinic.
3. Able and willing to provide informed consent and participate in feasibility testing (provider survey or semi-structured interview).

Exclusion Criteria:

Dental patients will be excluded from study participation if they meet the following criteria:

1. Have an acute or terminal illness or a serious mental illness or any other severe health condition(s) that might preclude visiting an oral health care provider.
2. Are currently participating in another oral health study.

Dental providers will be excluded from study participation if they meet the following criteria:

1. Have an acute or terminal illness or a serious mental illness or any other severe health condition(s) that might preclude them from completing the feasibility testing.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of Dental Patients Who Strongly Agreed or Agreed That the Use of an Intra-Oral Camera By Their Dentists Helped Them to Better Understand Oral Cancer Screening
timeFrame: At the end of the dental appointment, 30-45 minutes
measure: Percentage of Dental Patients Who Strongly Agreed or Agreed That Dentists Answered Their Questions About Oral Cancer and Were Able to Provide Them With Resources
timeFrame: At the end of the dental appointment, 30-45 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of Dental Providers Who Reported Successfully Providing the Tele-Mentoring Intervention
timeFrame: At the end of the dental appointment, 30-45 minutes
measure: Percentage of Dental Providers Who Reported That The Process Was Clear and Straightforward
timeFrame: At the end of the dental appointment, 30-45 minutes
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Brooklyn
country: United States
facility: NYU Langone Health Dental Medicine
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: NYU Langone Health
name: Nathalie Mohadjeri-Franck, DMD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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