ArticleBritish dental journal2016
Pilot study to train dentists to communicate about oral cancer: the impact on dentists' self-reported behaviour, confidence and beliefs.
Article in British dental journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Dental Visits, Dentist-Patient Communication, and Its Association with Oral Cancer Examination Behavior Among Tobacco/Nicotine Product Users in Western India: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- How oral cancer is taught: a scoping review.Frontiers in oral health · 2026Review
- Talking about cancer: Patient responses to raising awareness of oral cancer in primary dental care.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2023Article
- The barriers dentists face to communicate cancer diagnosis: self-assessment based on SPIKES protocol.Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal · 2023Observational
- Article
- Mouth cancer: presentation, detection and referral in primary dental care.British dental journal · 2018Article
- Screening Projects for Oral Carcinoma in Relation to Health Education and Patients' Compliance: Study on 600 Participants.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community Dentistry · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate the effect of a brief, focused training session on the use of an oral cancer communication guide on dentists' intentions, self-efficacy and beliefs with regards to communicating about oral cancer with patients.
designPre-post intervention study.
settingThe training session took place in a lecture theatre at King's College London. SUBJECTS AND
methodsDentists working in various settings were trained on the use of the oral cancer communication guide via a structured session that included an update on oral cancer, modelling the use of the guide in practice, and role playing. Dentists (n = 39) completed questionnaires pre-training, immediately post-training (n = 31) and after 2 weeks (n = 23). Questionnaires assessed current practice, self-efficacy and barriers to discussing oral cancer.
resultsA significantly higher proportion of dentists reported that they informed patients that they were being screened for oral cancer post-training (44%) than pre-training (16%). Significantly fewer perceived barriers and higher self-efficacy to discuss oral cancer were also reported.
conclusionTraining dentists in the use of the guide showed positive impact by reducing perceived barriers and increasing self-efficacy.
Indexed as
Identifiers
26794112What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.