Specialty: Oral and Dental Health, Primary sub-specialty: Oral and dental public health
Conditions
Interventions
We will identify general dental practices through Greater Manchester Dental Professional Network. The study will randomly allocate dental practices to either the usual practice arm or the intervention
Sponsors
The University of Manchester
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Dental practices are the unit of analysis for this study. Staff members must include dentists, dental nurses, hygienists and practice managers. Participants must be aged 18 years and older.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Dental surgeries that do not have suitable data handling practices (such as IT systems SoE or Kodak) to refer from and gather study data. Data can be gathered manually as date from referred patients is limited, but IT recording of the referral would be preferable. The study aims to explore whether IT integration is feasible as a future direction 2. Failure of staff and clinicians to participate in the DRiDVA training prior to study commencement
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Number of referrals to the collaborating DVA agency (Manchester Women's Aid) for 9 months after training of intervention practices. An adult patient is counted as a referral if the GDP records referral information. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Disclosure rate for 9 months following the training sessions within practices in the intervention arm. Cumulative and monthly (to assess season variation) identification, referral and advocacy contact figures will be calculated, along with loss to follow up. Descriptive analyses will be undertaken to summarise the total number of adult patient presenting with injuries from DVA identified and referred to the collaborating agency. Simple descriptive statistics involving calculation of ranges, frequency distributions and measures of central tendency and dispersion will be used to assess the completeness and variability of outcome measures. | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Contacts
Public ContactPaul;Omolade Coulthard;Femi-Ajao
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Outcome results
None listed