Effect of an Educational Program concerning Oral Assessment and Healthcare on Nurses’ Performance of Oral Health Checkups in a Hospital.

Haresaku, Satoru; Aoki, Hisae; Makino, Michiko; Monji, Mayumi; Kansui, Akino; Miyoshi, Maki; Yoshida, Rie; Kubota, Keiko; Jinnouchi, Akio; Naito, Toru; Kuroki, Madoka

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“…To investigate the effect of interprofessional educational programmes designed for the improvement of nursing students' oral assessment performance, the questionnaire items were derived from a previously developed questionnaire for evaluating nurses' attitudes, confidence, abilities, and performance of oral assessments. The validity and reliability of the questionnaires were verified in previous studies (Haresaku et al, 2018a;Haresaku et al, 2018b). However, the items in the questionnaire regarding their oral assessment performance for their patients were excluded from this study.…”

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“…However, attitudes improved to a somewhat positive level after the interprofessional educational programmes. A previous study of oral assessment education for 55 nurses in a hospital reported that the programmes that combined lectures and partner training were effective in improving attitudes towards oral assessment administration (Haresaku et al, ). In addition, the nurses' attitudes regarding their duties and their willingness to perform oral assessments and dental referrals improved after the programmes, even if their attitudes were somewhat positive at baseline.…”

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“…A previous study of an interprofessional oral health assessment educational programme, in which dental faculty and students taught nursing students, reported that the students' confidence in performing oral assessments improved after the programmes (Estes et al, ). On the other hand, the educational programmes for oral assessment offered for nurses were not effective in improving the nurses' confidence (Haresaku et al, ). Therefore, it is suggested that oral assessment educational programmes should be conducted for nursing students before they become nurses so as to improve their confidence in performing oral assessments.…”

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Effect of interprofessional education on oral assessment performance of nursing students

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Miyoshi

Kubota

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Clinical & Exp Dental Res

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Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of interprofessional educational programmes on the improvement of nursing students' oral assessment performances by comparing their attitudes, confidence, abilities, and self‐performance before and after the education. Materials and methods The subjects included 112 first‐year nursing students in a Japanese nursing school. They participated in the oral assessment educational programmes, which were supported by dentists and introduced into the 1‐year curriculum. The first programme was a 1.5‐hr lecture with a self‐oral assessment training in May 2018, and the second was a 1‐hr oral assessment training in October 2018. The questionnaire surveys investigating nursing students' attitudes, confidence, and self‐performance regarding oral assessment and the tests measuring their oral assessment abilities were conducted before and after the programmes. The total scores on the tests were 0–9 points. Results A total of 101 (90.2%) nursing students responded to all the questionnaires and tests. Their attitudes and confidence regarding oral assessment were significantly improved after the programmes. The total average scores on the tests were significantly increased from 6.8 points at baseline to 7.9 points after the programmes. The percentage of their performance of self‐oral assessment every day significantly increased from 15.8% at baseline to 32.7% after the programmes. Conclusions These results suggested that the educational programme might be effective in improving not only the students' attitudes and confidence regarding oral assessment but also their oral assessment abilities and self‐oral assessment performance. Therefore, future programmes must focus on training them to improve oral health care referrals.

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“…To resolve this problem, oral assessments and dental referrals performed by health care workers who usually provide medical care for inpatients, such as nurses, may play a more important role than oral health checkups by dentists. Nurses can be good providers of oral assessments and can serve as a bridge by referring inpatients with oral problems [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Therefore, it is suggested that the development of nurses' oral assessment performance for their inpatients will provide opportunities to increase their dental referrals and the provision of oral health care for these inpatients.…”

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Factors associated with nurses’ performance of oral assessments and dental referrals for hospital inpatients

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Uchida²,

Aoki³

et al. 2020

BMC Oral Health

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Background: Nurses' oral assessment and dental referral performance for inpatients are important to provide appropriate oral care services in hospitals. The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and performance of oral assessments and dental referrals for their inpatients among nurses and to identify factors associated with that performance to promote oral health care in hospitals. Methods: All nurses (n = 919) who worked at five hospitals in Japan were recruited as responders. A questionnaire regarding their performance of oral assessments and dental referrals was distributed to the subjects in each hospital. The data were collected from August 2018 to September 2018. Results: A total of 757 (82.4%) nurses (82 males and 675 females) responded to the questionnaire. With respect to each of the 8 oral assessment categories, 16.2-41.2% of the nurses performed oral assessments for more than 50% of their inpatients, and 20.3-29.9% had encouraged more than one inpatient to see a dentist within the previous 3 months. Significant differences were found by ward and hospital in their performance of oral assessments for inpatients. Additionally, their oral assessment performance, knowledge of the usage of oral assessment tools, wards, and hospitals were significantly associated with their dental referral performance. Conclusions: The performance of oral assessment and dental referral was not developed sufficiently in the hospitals. Thus, oral health professionals should support oral assessment education for nurses, including usage of assessment tools, to promote dental referral by nurses. These results may contribute to promotion of dental referral performance by nurses and provision of oral health care by oral health professionals for hospital inpatients.

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Measurement properties, interpretability and feasibility of instruments measuring oral health and orofacial pain in dependent adults: a systematic review

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Background Dependent adults have been shown to have a greater experience of oral health deterioration and orofacial pain. This is partly because their non-dental caregivers may not easily identify oral health problems and orofacial pain experienced by them. Thus, this systematic review aimed to investigate measurement properties, interpretability and feasibility of instruments assessing oral health and orofacial pain in dependent adults, which can be used by the non-dental caregivers to establish oral care plans for those who are dependent upon them. Methods Seven bibliographic databases were searched: MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, CENTRAL, HTA, OATD and OpenGrey. Citations and reference lists of the included studies were also manually searched. Two authors independently screened titles and abstracts, and then full texts. A quality assessment of included studies was conducted independently by two authors using the COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist. The best evidence synthesis method was used to synthesise results from different studies for each measurement property per measurement instrument by integrating the overall rating for each measurement property per measurement instrument with its quality level of evidence. Results Nineteen eligible studies were included, which reported the development, measurement properties’ evaluation, interpretability and feasibility of nine oral health and three orofacial pain measurement instruments. Methodological quality of the included studies ranged from very good to inadequate. None of the identified measurement instruments has been adequately and comprehensively tested. Conclusions While several measurement instruments were identified in this systematic review, more evidence is needed to be able to more comprehensively evaluate these instruments. Among those identified, the OPS-NVI demonstrated sufficient construct validity, while the OHAT and the THROAT demonstrated sufficient reliability. These instruments therefore have potential for future use with more confidence once other measurement properties, interpretability and feasibility have been sufficiently tested and evaluated.

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Effect of an Educational Program concerning Oral Assessment and Healthcare on Nurses’ Performance of Oral Health Checkups in a Hospital.

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Effect of interprofessional education on oral assessment performance of nursing students

Effect of interprofessional education on oral assessment performance of nursing students

Factors associated with nurses’ performance of oral assessments and dental referrals for hospital inpatients

Measurement properties, interpretability and feasibility of instruments measuring oral health and orofacial pain in dependent adults: a systematic review

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