NCT06500832

Defensive Dentistry Practices and Dentists (DDP)

An Analysis of Clinicians' Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Defensive Dentistry Practices: A Survey-based Research

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 410 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul Aydın University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-01
• Primary completion: 2022-07-30
• Completion: 2023-07-30
• First posted: 2024-07-15
• Last updated: 2024-07-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)