Oral Cancer Screening Among Nursing Home Dentists in Ohio

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Head and Neck Cancer

Treatments

Other: survey administration

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT00526851

CASE-17Z06-CC213

CASE17Z06 (Other Identifier)

P30CA043703 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

RATIONALE: Learning about oral cancer screening practices, knowledge, and opinions of Ohio nursing home dentists may help the study of oral cancer in the future.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying oral cancer screening among nursing home dentists in Ohio.

Full description

OBJECTIVES:

To develop a comprehensive sample of nursing home dentists in Ohio.
To document knowledge of oral cancer detection among these dentists.
To describe opinions of these dentists about oral cancer screening competency.
To describe the current oral cancer screening practices of these dentists.

OUTLINE: Participants are stratified according to geographical location (urban vs rural).

A comprehensive sample of nursing home dentists practicing in Ohio are contacted through a recruitment letter and are asked to respond to questions regarding oral cancer screening practices, knowledge of oral cancer detection, and opinions about oral cancer screening using a newly developed survey, which is based on parts of an existing, pre-tested instrument (Oral Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Survey).

Enrollment

37 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: