NCT07266909

Impact of Attentional Tunelling on a Population of French Practitioners

Impact of Attentional Tunneling or the "Tunnel Effect" in Dentistry. Multi-centre Cross-sectional Study of a Population of French Practitioners.

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 160 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The tunnel effect, also known as attentional tunnelling, is a cognitive bias affecting all healthcare professionals, including odontologists. It is characterised by an excessive focus on a specific element of a clinical situation, which can alter the overall assessment and lead to errors in medical practice. This poses a particular risk to the quality of dental care, especially surgical care. Despite the importance of this risk, few studies have addressed this issue in dentistry. Therefore, raising the dental community's awareness of this phenomenon on a large scale is both justified and necessary.

Conditions

• Awareness
• Attention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Face-to-face or online survey	A face -to-face or online questionnaire will be given to study paticipants after a seminar on attentional tunneling organized by Professors Dridi and Charavet.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-11-21
• Primary completion: 2025-11-21
• Completion: 2026-11-30
• First posted: 2025-12-05
• Last updated: 2025-12-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France