Impact of Attentional Tunelling on a Population of French Practitioners
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Face-to-face or online survey.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Awareness, Attention. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- France
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Impact of Attentional Tunneling or the "Tunnel Effect" in Dentistry. Multi-centre Cross-sectional Study of a Population of French Practitioners.
Overview
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.
Interventions
- 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.
Primary outcome measures
- Evaluation of the state of knowledge relating to the attentional tunnelling of a cohort of odontologists of different professional levels. [Time frame: At the inclusion]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- Associated risk indicators for attentional tunnelling [Time frame: At the inclusion]
- Associated risk indicators for prevention strategies [Time frame: At the inclusion]
- Evaluation of the nature of the means proposed to combat the tunnel effect [Time frame: At the inclusion]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- University hospital practitioner (professor, associate professor, ...)
- Dental surgeon (outside university hospitals
- Intern (DES MBD and ODF).
Exclusion criteria
- Students.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
France · 1 center
- Dridi — Nice
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07266909 · 25Odonto06