Clinical trial NCT01522924: Tobacco Dependence Treatment Education for Dental Students
Official title: Tobacco Dependence Treatment Education for Dental Students Using Standardized Patients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Smoking
Keywords: tobacco cessation treatment
standardized patients
dental students
tobacco cessation treatment education
Lead sponsor: University of Louisville
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2012-02-01
Enrollment: 94
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* must be a first year dental student in Introduction to Clinical Dentistry I at the study institution
* volunteer to complete pre- and post-questionnaires concerning tobacco cessation treatment educational training.

Exclusion Criteria:

* subject does not complete pre- and post- questionnaires.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change From Baseline in Attitude Score
timeFrame: Questionnaire 1 (baseline/pre-lecture) to Questionnaire 2 (post-lecture or post-lecture and counseling/debriefing sessions)
measure: Change From Baseline in Perceived Barriers Score
timeFrame: Questionnaire 1(baseline/pre-lecture) to Questionnaire 2(post-lecture or post-lecture and counseling /debriefing sessions)
measure: Change From Baseline in Subjective Norms Score
timeFrame: Questionnaire 1 ( baseline/pre-lecture) to Questionnaire 2 (post-lecture or post-lecture and counseling/debriefing sessions)
measure: Change From Baseline in Perceived Skills Score
timeFrame: Questionnaire 1(baseline/pre-lecture) to Questionnaire 2 (post-lecture or post-lecture and counseling/debriefing sessions)
measure: Change From Baseline in Self-efficacy Score
timeFrame: Questionaire 1 (baseline/pre-lecture) to Questionnaire 2 (post-lecture or post-lecture and counseling/debriefing sessions)
measure: Change From Baseline in Intentions Score
timeFrame: Questionnaire 1 (baseline/pre-lecture) to Questionnaire 2 (post-lecture or post-lecture and counseling/debriefing sessions)
measure: Change From Baseline in Tobacco Cessation Knowledge Score
timeFrame: Questionnaire 1 (pre-lecture) to Questionnaire 2 (post-lecture or post-lecture and counseling/debriefing sessions)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Louisville
country: United States
facility: University of Louisville School of Dentistry
state: Kentucky
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Louisville
name: Jacqueline A Singleton, MEd
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Walsh SE, Singleton JA, Worth CT, Krugler J, Moore R, Wesley GC, Mitchell CK. Tobacco cessation counseling training with standardized patients. J Dent Educ. 2007 Sep;71(9):1171-8.