Importance of Provider Feedback from Patients about Quitting Tobacco to Dentists in Dental Care Setting

Not yet recruiting

Conditions: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services,

Brief Summary: Tobacco has been the long known cause of Oral cancer. Dentists are the first to record the changes due to tobacco consumption in the oral cavity of the patients. They diagnose oral cancer with a routine oral screening of patients. This study attempts to test the effect of feedback given by the patients in training the dentists carrying out the tobacco cessation counselling. Responsibility lies with both the clinician and the health care system to ensure that atleast a brief intervention need to be given to every tobacco user. Although many smokers are reluctant to seek intensive treatment they nevertheless can receive a brief intervention every time they visit a clinician. The strategy is to ensure that all patients are asked about tobacco use as part of every clinical encounter. Such prompts have been shown to increase the rate at which clinicians intervene with tobacco using patients. In addition to patients counselling by the clinicians, feedback by the patients is widely used as a strategy to improve professional practice either on its own or as a component of multifaceted quality improvement interventions.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Dentists who give consent to Participate in study.
Dentist inclined to undergo Tobacco Cessation Counselling training and Implementation.
Patient should be a current smoker.
Patient willing to quit the habit of smoking.

Exclusion Criteria

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Tobacco Cessation Counselling by Dentists	7 Days,3 Months, 6 Months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Tobaccco cessation by Patients	7 Days,3 Months, 6 Months

Locations (1): The Oxford Dental College
🇮🇳
Bangalore, KARNATAKA, India
The Oxford Dental College
🇮🇳Bangalore, KARNATAKA, India
Vinod
Principal investigator
9986024502
vinoddeolkar007@gmail.com