Impact of Attentional Tunelling on a Population of French Practitioners

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Awareness; Attention

Treatments: Other: Face-to-face or online survey

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07266909

25Odonto06

Details and patient eligibility

About

The tunnel effect, also known as attentional tunnelling, is a cognitive bias affecting all healthcare professionals, including odontologists. It is characterised by an excessive focus on a specific element of a clinical situation, which can alter the overall assessment and lead to errors in medical practice. This poses a particular risk to the quality of dental care, especially surgical care. Despite the importance of this risk, few studies have addressed this issue in dentistry. Therefore, raising the dental community's awareness of this phenomenon on a large scale is both justified and necessary.

Enrollment: 160 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• University hospital practitioner (professor, associate professor, ...)
• Dental surgeon (outside university hospitals
• Intern (DES MBD and ODF).

Exclusion criteria

• Students.

Trial design

160 participants in 3 patient groups

Public Practitioners

Description:

Practitioners working in dental departments at hospitals and university centres in Nice, Marseille and Montpellier (France)

Treatment:

Other: Face-to-face or online survey

Orthodondics Students

Description:

Resident enrolled in France in an Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics training program, attending the national course given by the University of Nice

Treatment:

Other: Face-to-face or online survey

Private practitioners

Description:

Private practitioners or employees (excluding university hospitals) enrolled in continuing education programmes at the university dental services in Nice, Marseille, and Montpellier (France)

Treatment:

Other: Face-to-face or online survey