Clinical trial NCT06518395: The Degree of Knowledge and Attitude of Egyptian Nurses Regarding Emergency Management of Traumatic Dental Injuries.
Official title: The Degree of Knowledge and Attitude of Egyptian Nurses Regarding Emergency Management of Traumatic Dental Injuries: Cross-sectional Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Conditions: Traumatic Dental Injuries
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-07-24
Enrollment: 371
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Medical and dental Nurses in Egypt above 20 years of age.

Brief summary: This study intends to evaluate medical and dental nurses' fundamental knowledge and attitude regarding the management of Traumatic Dental Injuries in Egypt.

Detailed description: a master's degree student in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry ,Cairo University, will assess the degree of knowledge and attitudes of Egyptian Nurses regarding Emergency Management of Traumatic Dental Injuries for all the nurses who will be included in the study sample using soft and hard copies of questionnaire.

Data will be stored on the investigator's personal computer, secured with a password with backup for the data on Google Drive and hard copy.

The study results will be monitored regularly by the supervisors who will have full access to these interim results to make the final decision to terminate the study.

Auditing of the study design will be done by the evidence-based committee - Faculty of Dentistry - Cairo University.

Recruitment strategy will be through giving all medical and dental nurses at each hospital questionnaire forms to solve and return after explaining the items of the questionnaire to them.

The study size was calculated using StatCalc version 1.4.3 (Epi InfoTM, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and it was a total of 371nurses.

Statistical analysis will be performed using Medcalc software, version 22 for windows (MedCalc Software Ltd, Ostend, Belgium).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Egyptian Nurses who accepted to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Egyptian Nurses who refused to participate.

Primary outcomes:
measure: the degree of knowledge and attitude of Egyptian medical and dental Nurses about Emergency Management of Traumatic Dental Injuries.
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cairo
country: Egypt
facility: Cairo University
state: Manial
Study officials:
affiliation: Cairo University
name: sherien B badr, professor
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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