Clinical trial NCT01424358: Web-based Education on Oral Cancer for Primary Care Physicians in Ohio
Official title: Web-based Education on Oral Cancer for Primary Care Physicians in Ohio
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Oral Cancer
Lead sponsor: Creighton University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
First posted: 2011-08-29
Enrollment: 10
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Intervention model: PARALLEL

Brief summary: Objective:

The experimental design is a one-site, randomized experimental web-based educational feasibility intervention trial, with approximately 50% primary care physicians (PCPs) in the intervention group and approximately 50% PCPs on the control group, giving a total of 159 participants. All 159 participants have willingly provided their e-mail addresses, as part of a survey they previously completed entitled, "Survey of Health Professionals on Oral Cancer in Ohio- Intervention to Prevent Delayed Diagnosis of Oral Cancer."

Detailed description: The main specific aim is to determine the short-term effectiveness of a web-based educational intervention for primary care physicians (PCPs) in Ohio to improve the following:Index of knowledge of risk factors for oral cancer, and Index of knowledge of diagnostic procedures for oral cancer

The following hypothesis will be explored: The use of a web-based educational module for PCPs in Ohio regarding oral cancer will increase the proportion of the PCPs in the high score category for the following indices: Index of knowledge of risk factors of oral cancer, and Index of knowledge of diagnostic procedures for oral cancer

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* The PCP's who participated in Specific Aim #2 (Survey of Healthcare Professionals on Oral Cancer in Ohio ) of the NIH K23 grant proposal, "Intervention to Prevent Delayed Diagnosis of Oral Cancer", will be eligible to participate in this Web-Based Education on Oral Cancer.
* Possessing the ability to give voluntary consent to participate. Participating in the web-based educational intervention is am implication of consent.
* All participants are expected to be relatively healthy.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unable to have access to the internet to be able to participate in the web-based education.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Index of knowledge of diagnostic procedure for oral cancer
timeFrame: An average of 8 months from the time of the initial email sent on 7/21/11.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: To determine if a change in Stage of Diagnosis of Oral Cancer occurred for the particular year of Web-based Educational Intervention.
timeFrame: 3 years
measure: Index of knowledge of risk factors for oral cancer.
timeFrame: An average of 8 months from the time of the initial email sent on 7/21/11.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Omaha
country: United States
facility: Creighton University School of Dentistry
state: Nebraska
Study officials:
affiliation: Creighton University
name: Alvin G Wee, DDS, MS, MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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