NCT06559384

Facilitators and Barriers to Dental Care in Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Facilitators and Barriers to Dental Care in Head and Neck Cancer Patients - Perspectives From Patients, Dentists, and Oncologists

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Medical Center Goettingen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

The aim of this study is to identify potential facilitators and barriers to dental care in head-neck cancer patients from the perspective of affected patients, dentists, and oncologists (specialists in radiotherapy and specialists in otolaryngology).

Detailed description

Patients as well as dentists and oncologists will be interviewed in semi-structured individual interviews. The interview guide used will align with the 14 domains of the Theoretical Domains Framework. Through qualitative content analysis, both facilitators and barriers to dental treatment for head-neck cancer patients will be identified.

Conditions

• Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Interviews	semi-structured individual interviews

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-09-01
• Primary completion: 2025-12-01
• Completion: 2025-12-01
• First posted: 2024-08-19
• Last updated: 2025-12-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany