MedTrace Logo

Defensive Dentistry Practices and Dentists (DDP)

NCT06500832 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 410

Last updated 2024-07-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Medical malpractice claims have been on the rise in recent years due to the growing patient rights movement. This term is defined as an injury caused by a healthcare professional's failure to follow standard practice during treatment, a lack of skill, or failure to provide treatment. Defensive dentistry is on the rise as violence and malpractice claims increase. Defensive dental practices (DDP) refer to minimize legal responsibility of the clinician primarily rather than looking out for the patient's benefit. This study aims to evaluate the knowledge, awareness and attitudes of dentists in terms of DDP.

Conditions

  • Defensive Medicine

Interventions

OTHER

Survey-based Data Collection Tool

The data collection tool to be presented to the participants is planned as a three-part survey. The first part of this form asked 9 questions about the demographic characteristics of the participants consisted of age, gender, marital status, duration in the profession, specialization in dentistry, type of workplace, and off-the-clock work. The second part of the data collection tool consisted of the 'Defensive Dentistry Practice Survey,'(DDPS) DDPS which is the original language of which is Turkish, is a 5-point Likert-type scale. A total of 12 statements about DDPS which measure the opinions, attitudes, or behaviors of the participants in terms of DDP, the following options are used: strongly disagreed, disagreed, neither disagreed nor agreed, agreed and strongly agreed, each expressing groups of 20%. The last part of the survey had 3 close-ended questions with yes-no options expressing 50% groups is used.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istanbul Aydın University

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-01-01
Primary Completion
2022-07-30
Completion
2023-07-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT06500832 on ClinicalTrials.gov