KAP of Dental Practitioners Regarding CRA

August 1, 2024 updated by: Waleed Saqer Saeed Almutairi, Cairo University

Dental Practitioners' Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) in Cairo and Riyadh Regarding Caries Risk Assessment and Management: A Cross-Sectional Study

The aim of the study is to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practice of a group of dental practitioners from Cairo and Riyadh regarding caries risk assessment and management.

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Detailed Description

Dental caries is a preventable major public health disease affecting people of all ages and substantially impacting overall health. Caries remain the single most common chronic childhood disease. Dental caries is a dynamic and complex process. Several variables influence the occurrence of dental caries, including oral flora, saliva flow and composition, and lifestyle. Dental caries development can be primary (new carious lesion) or secondary (lesion progression or reactivated carious lesions).

There has been much progress over the past several decades in the prevention of dental caries, shifting from the management of dental caries from a "surgical approach" to a "medical prevention strategy", based on a better understanding of the caries disease process.

Caries Risk Assessment (CRA) is a significant part of successfully applying the minimum intervention dentistry philosophy in managing dental caries. As recommended by AAPD, Dental caries-risk assessment should be a routine component of new and periodic examinations by oral health and medical providers. Therefore, this study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of a group of dental practitioners from Cairo and Riyadh regarding caries risk assessment and management.

Benefits to Practitioner:

  • Increasing awareness of the importance of CRA practices.
  • Implementing a positive attitude regarding CRA and management.
  • Improve practices toward CRA

Benefits to Patient:

  • Increasing the awareness and knowledge of early caries prevention by dentists.
  • Increasing awareness about Caries Risk Assessment and management.

Benefits to Community:

• Increasing the knowledge and awareness of the community regarding preventive dentistry and the importance of primary prevention

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Estimated)

174

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

All licensed Egyptian and Saudi general dentists

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Licensed Egyptian and Saudi general dentists.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Undergraduate dental students
  • Dental specialists
  • Dentists who refused to participate

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Dental Practitioners in Cairo and Riyadah
Time Frame: 1 year

Questionnaire

The questionnaire is composed of the following sections:

(A) Sociodemographic data including participants' age, gender, qualification, experience years, place of practice, and the number of pediatric patients they see every week.

(B) Participants' knowledge of caries risk assessment indicators.

Section (B) will contain binary questions (true and false)

(C) Participants' attitudes and knowledge related to caries risk assessment and management.

section (C) will contain three-point Likert scale (''Agree'', ''Disagree'' and "Neither agree nor disagree")

(D) Barriers in caries risk assessment and management practices.

Section (D) will contain a four-point Likert-type scale (always, often, sometimes, and never.)
1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Cairo University

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Gihan M Abuelniel, Professor, Professor

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

September 1, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

October 1, 2024

Study Completion (Estimated)

October 30, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 18, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 18, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

March 31, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

August 2, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 1, 2024

Last Verified

August 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • KAP Regarding CRA

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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