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An Implementation Strategy for the Adoption of an Evidence-Based Guideline for Pit-and-Fissure Sealants

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04682730

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Official title

An Implementation Strategy for the Adoption of an Evidence-Based Guideline for Pit-and-Fissure Sealants: Using a Framework From Organizational Development

Brief summary

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The purpose of this implementation science study is to determine whether Deliberative Loops are effective in increasing providers' adherence to the non-cavitated caries component of the American Dental Association's pit-and-fissure sealant evidence-based clinical practice guideline. The investigators use a stepped wedge design to randomly assign dental clinics to the Deliberative Loop intervention. In a Deliberative Loop, stakeholders receive background information, participate in a facilitated discussion, and share their views with leadership. The Deliberative Loop intervention is designed to help stakeholders form informed opinions; in this study, stakeholders will be forming informed opinions about the implementation interventions they think will increase their clinic's adherence to the guideline. The investigators hypothesize that compared with the pre-intervention period, following the intervention, providers will place or treatment plan sealants for significantly more occlusal non-cavitated carious lesions.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT04682730
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
University of Pittsburgh
Other
Enrollment
896 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Dec 31, 2020
Primary completion
Dec 30, 2021
Completion
Jan 25, 2022
Last update posted
Jul 11, 2023

2021 – 2022

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research Portland Oregon 97227

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