Implementing Tobacco Control in Dental Practice

Status unconfirmed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Smoking

In brief

Our goal is to test a dentist-hygienist team intervention to help dental patients quit smoking and determine if it can be effectively and cost-effectively implemented and sustained. Staff in half of the HMO's 14 large dental facilities will be trained to provide brief cessation advice and assistance and to encourage smokers to talk by phone with a tobacco counselor before they leave the dental office. Phone counselors will provide brief counseling, assess stage, and offer a full list of cessation services. The Active Referral intervention strategy is both practical and innovative, as it takes advantage of available resources; efficiently distributes intervention activities between dentists, hygienists, and counseling specialists; and could be delivered in individual, small, or large dental practices. This intervention is provided as part of routine care to all patients seen for annual dental and periodontal exams.Consented patients will receive a short phone survey shortly after the exam to assess smoking status, satisfaction with delivery of support services,and satisfaction with intervention. Consented patients in treatment and control facilities will be surveyed by phone at one year to re-assess smoking status and satisfaction with services.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00297700

Run by

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

People needed

2800

Starts

2004-05-01

Expected to finish

2007-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-01-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Kaiser Permanente (KP)member
• 18 years of age or older
• Receiving routine primary care in KP dental offices
• Tobacco user at time of routine dental visit

You may not qualify if…

• Non-KP member
• Less than 18 years or age
• Non-tobacco user

Where it is running

• Center for Health Research — Portland, Oregon, United States

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