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What is a significant challenge in healthcare financing?

  • Expanding health insurance coverage
  • Ensuring adequate funding for health services (correct)
  • Increasing the number of healthcare facilities
  • Reducing healthcare costs for patients

Which of the following issues is related to a major barrier in accessing healthcare services?

  • Mental health awareness programs
  • Lack of technological advancements
  • Quality of medical education
  • Poverty (correct)

What approach does the Integrated Science Model represent in addressing health issues?

  • An interdisciplinary approach combining various scientific insights (correct)
  • A biological approach prioritizing genetic research
  • A purely observational approach without practical application
  • A holistic approach focusing solely on psychological aspects

Which type of epidemiological study focuses on establishing cause-effect relationships?

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What is a primary objective of epidemiology?

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Which concept is critical to understanding health problems according to the biopsychosocial model?

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What term is used to describe the spread of misinformation, especially during a public health crisis?

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What is a significant challenge related to mental health in the public health context?

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What is the primary aim of epidemiology?

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Which of the following describes the purpose of a descriptive study?

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In case-control studies, what is the initial focus?

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Which type of study involves measuring the frequency of health conditions in relation to variables?

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What characterizes analytical studies in epidemiology?

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What is a limitation of descriptive studies?

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Which of the following is NOT a method used by epidemiologists?

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What do cohort studies primarily investigate?

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What is the primary purpose of matching in case-control studies?

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What is measured to understand the relationship between exposure and disease in case-control studies?

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In cohort studies, what is the main characteristic of the groups involved?

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What is the significance of random assignment in randomized controlled trials?

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Which risk measure is used in cohort studies to evaluate disease occurrence?

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What type of study is considered the gold standard for establishing causation?

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What aspect does a cohort study primarily focus on over time?

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What was evaluated in the RCT regarding dental implants?

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What model was used in the RCT on Oral Health Education to improve oral health behaviors?

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What was the primary measure used in the RCT addressing oral health education?

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What was the main finding of the RCT on the effect of probiotics on oral health?

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Which of the following interventions was found to be effective in preventing dental caries in children in the RCT?

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What was the main objective of the RCT involving silver diamine fluoride?

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In the trial evaluating laser therapy for periodontal disease, what was the main outcome measured?

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What type of trials are designed to assess the effectiveness of public health interventions in community settings?

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What was a key finding from the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation?

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What was the primary aim of the community-based intervention trial for oral cancer prevention?

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What was the outcome of the field trial evaluating water fluoridation's effectiveness?

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Why are ethical guidelines established in clinical research?

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Which of the following ethical issues is NOT commonly associated with clinical research?

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What does external validity refer to in the context of randomized controlled trials (RCTs)?

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Which principle is NOT part of the seven main principles guiding ethical research?

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What is a key challenge in conducting Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)?

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What is a notable limitation of randomized controlled trials (RCTs)?

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Which of the following is considered a clinically relevant outcome (CRO) in dental research?

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What is the primary purpose of systematic reviews and meta-analyses?

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What aspect of systematic reviews helps to assess the relevance of included studies?

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Which of these is a limitation of systematic reviews and meta-analyses?

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What is a key step in conducting a systematic review?

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What is a significant factor that influences the choice of trial design for an RCT?

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How do systematic reviews and meta-analyses benefit clinical practice?

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What is a primary method used in a meta-analysis?

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Epidemiology

The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems.

Descriptive studies

Observational studies that describe the distribution of health conditions in a population, without looking for cause and effect.

Analytical studies

Observational studies that investigate possible cause-and-effect relationships between factors and health outcomes.

Case-control study

A type of analytical study that compares individuals with a disease (cases) to individuals without the disease (controls) to look for past exposures that might be linked to the condition.

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Cohort study

An observational study that follows a group of people over time to see if exposure to certain factors are associated with a specific disease.

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Experimental/interventional studies

Studies that involve manipulating an exposure or intervention to assess its effect on a health outcome.

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Randomized controlled trial

An experimental study where participants are randomly assigned to either an intervention group or a control group to assess the effect of the intervention.

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Field Trials

Real-world application of preventive or treatment strategies involving a large population in a community.

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Community Trials

Studies aimed at assessing the efficacy of community-based interventions for prevention or health promotion.

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Public Health in Dentistry

The practice of promoting and protecting the oral health of populations.

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Health Financing

Ensuring sufficient funding for healthcare services.

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Human Resources for Health

The need for skilled healthcare professionals.

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Mental Health

Addressing the growing concern of mental health issues.

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Climate Change

A major threat to both the planet and human health.

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Poverty

A significant barrier to accessing healthcare.

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Reproductive Health

Ensuring access to services related to reproduction.

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Infodemic

Rapid spread of misinformation, particularly during a crisis.

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Humanitarian Crisis

Providing healthcare in conflict or emergency situations.

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Integrated Science Model

Combines biological, behavioural, and social science perspectives.

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Epidemiology

The study of the distribution and determinants of health problems in populations.

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Epidemiological Studies

Different types of studies (descriptive, analytical, experimental) used in epidemiology.

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Disease Measurement

Using rates, ratios, proportions, incidence, and prevalence to measure disease.

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Epidemiological Triad

A model identifying the complex relationship between host, agent, and environment in disease.

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Aetiology

The study of the origin and causes of disease.

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Pathogenesis

Process of development of a disease from its cause to its effects.

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Disease Prevention

Strategies to stop or reduce the risk of disease.

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Objectives of Epidemiology

To describe health/disease problems, identify determinants, and control problems.

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Case-Control Study

A study that compares people with a disease (cases) to people without the disease (controls) to see if there's a link to a suspected cause.

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Matching (in Case-Control)

A process used to ensure cases and controls are similar in factors like age, sex, or socioeconomic status, to avoid bias.

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Odds Ratio

A measure used in case-control studies to estimate the relationship between exposure and disease risk.

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Cohort Study

A study that follows a group of people over time to see if certain exposures link to developing a disease.

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Relative Risk

Measure in cohort studies, comparing the risk of disease in exposed vs unexposed groups.

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Attributable Risk

Measure in cohort studies, quantifying the amount of disease risk attributable to a specific exposure.

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Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)

An experiment in which participants are randomly assigned to a treatment or control group.

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Intervention Group (RCT)

The group in an RCT that receives the treatment or intervention being studied

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Control Group (RCT)

The group in an RCT that does not receive the treatment or intervention being studied.

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RCT on Oral Health Education

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to evaluate the effects of an oral health education intervention using the health belief model on oral health behaviors.

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Papillary Bleeding Index (PBI)

A measure used in oral health studies to assess the level of bleeding from the gums.

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RCT on Probiotics

A randomized controlled trial exploring the impact of probiotics on oral health as an adjunct to oral hygiene.

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RCT on Fluoride Varnish

A randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of fluoride varnish in preventing tooth decay in children.

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RCT on Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF)

A randomized controlled trial assessing the effectiveness of SDF in stopping tooth decay as an alternative to traditional dental treatments.

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RCT on Laser Therapy

A randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of laser therapy for treating periodontal disease.

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Field Trials/Community Trials

Studies evaluating the effectiveness of public health interventions in real-world community settings.

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Community Intervention Trial

A trial designed to test the impact of a community-based intervention, like a smoking cessation program, on public health outcomes.

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Field Trial on Oral Health Promotion

A field trial evaluating the impact of an oral health promotion program on improving knowledge and behaviors in rural communities.

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CROs in Dentistry

Complex research outcomes in dentistry that take a long time to show and often involve a small number of occurrences.

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RCT Trial Design

A crucial aspect of research; choosing the right experimental design based on the study's purpose, resources, and time.

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Data Management in RCTs

Ensuring data is collected accurately, efficiently, and securely during a randomized controlled trial.

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Financial Constraints in RCTs

The often significant costs associated with conducting randomized controlled trials, making funding challenging.

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RCT Findings Communication

Disseminating the results of a randomized controlled trial effectively to both professionals and the public.

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Systematic Review

A structured method for comprehensively identifying, evaluating, and combining all relevant studies to address a specific research question.

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Meta-Analysis

A statistical approach to combine the findings from multiple studies to create a more consolidated understanding of a topic.

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Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis Purpose

Summarizing the best available evidence and identifying gaps in knowledge to improve clinical practice.

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Systematic Review Process

Steps involved in creating a systematic review, including defining the research question, finding relevant studies, evaluating quality, extracting data and summarizing results.

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Meta-Analysis Process

Using statistical methods to combine results from multiple studies.

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Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis Advantages

More precise estimations, identifying factors that differentiate study results, resolving conflicting studies.

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Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis Limitations

Dependent on study quality; prone to publication biases.

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Community-Based Intervention

A research study that uses a community approach to intervene and evaluate the prevention of oral cancer.

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Water Fluoridation Trial

A clinical research study investigating the effect of water fluoridation on reducing dental cavities in children.

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Clinical Research Design

A scientific study using human subjects to evaluate therapies and treatments' safety and effectiveness.

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Ethics in Clinical Research

Ensuring the safety, rights, and well-being of human subjects in research.

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Nuremberg Code

A set of ethical principles for human experimentation that arose from the Nazi medical atrocities.

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Declaration of Helsinki

An international ethical guideline for medical research involving human subjects.

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Belmont Report

A report defining ethical principles for the protection of human subjects in research.

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CIOMS

Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences; provides guidelines on ethical research in many countries.

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U.S. Common Rule

A set of U.S. regulations that govern the protection of human subjects in federally funded research.

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Social and Clinical Value

Research must address a significant medical or public health need.

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Scientific Validity

The research methods must be rigorous and produce reliable findings.

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Fair Subject Selection

Participants should be chosen fairly and not exploit vulnerable groups.

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Favorable Risk-Benefit Ratio

The potential risks of the research should be outweighed by its potential benefits.

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Independent Review

An independent panel must review the research protocol before it starts.

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Informed Consent

Participants must provide permission to be part of the research after understanding the risks and benefits.

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Respect for Potential and Enrolled Subjects

Participants should be valued as individuals with autonomy and right to privacy.

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Ethical Issues in Clinical Research

Concerns about elements of research such as consent, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and vulnerable subjects.

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External Validity

The ability to generalize findings from a research study to other populations.

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Surrogate Outcomes

Measures in research that act as stand-ins for clinical relevant outcomes in dentistry.

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Study Notes

DENT1006 Public Health in Dentistry

  • Course title: DENT1006 Public Health in Dentistry
  • Course topic: Practice of Public Health/Health education
  • Instructor: Assoc.Prof.Banu Öter
  • Contact: banu.oter.bau.edu.tr

Lecture 4: Practice of Public Health

  • Critical issues in Healthcare and Public Health:
    • Health Financing: Ensuring sufficient funding for health services is a significant challenge.
    • Human Resources for Health: There's a need for skilled medical personal to deliver quality care.
    • Mental Health: Mental health conditions are increasing, and require attention.
    • Climate Change: This poses a significant threat to both the planet and human health.
    • Poverty: Poverty acts as a major barrier to accessing health care.
    • Reproductive Health: There are significant challenges ensuring access to reproductive health services.
    • Infodemic: The spread of misinformation, especially during pandemics like COVID-19, is a major problem.
    • Humanitarian Crisis: Healthcare provision in crisis situations is a key concern.

Integrated Science Model and Epidemiology

  • Integrated Science Model: An interdisciplinary approach using biological, behavioral, and social sciences to understand and address health problems.
  • Epidemiology: The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in populations. This includes descriptive, analytical, and experimental studies. Epidemiological studies investigate the causes and effects of diseases and health outcomes.

Disease Measurement and Prevention

  • Disease Measurement and Prevention: Tools used to measure disease frequency and magnitude include rates, ratios, proportions, incidence, and prevalence. The epidemiological triad, risk and prevention, and the biopsychosocial model of health and disease are key concepts.

Epidemiology: Scientific Elements

  • Epidemiology: The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and its application to control health problems.
  • Scientific Elements of Epidemiology: Include aetiology, pathogenesis, and prevention.

Objectives of Epidemiology

  • Objectives of Epidemiology: To describe the distribution and magnitude of health and disease problems in a population. Identify determinants of aetiological and risk factors. Provide data needed for planning, implementation, and evaluation of health services for prevention, control, and treatment of disease, or to set priorities for such services.

Epidemiological Methods

  • Epidemiological methods are categorized as observational (descriptive and analytical) and experimental/interventional (randomized controlled studies, field trials, community trials).

Descriptive Studies

  • Purpose: To observe and describe the distribution of a health condition or related event in a population.
  • Process: Involves measuring the frequency of a condition/event and its patterns, considering variables like age, sex, and location.
  • Outcome: Can help identify trends, generate hypotheses, or further research.
  • Usage: Often the first step in research, providing valuable "who, what, where, when" information.

Case-Control Studies

  • Starting Point: Identify individuals with a specific disease (cases) and those without (controls) from the same population.
  • Selection: Cases have the disease; controls do not have the disease. Matching may be used.
  • Exposure Measurement: Assess past exposures of cases and controls to suspected causes of the disease.
  • Analysis: Compare exposure frequencies in cases and controls using odds ratios to determine a possible relationship between exposure and disease.

Cohort Studies

  • Starting Point: Select a group of people sharing a common characteristic or exposure (cohorts).
  • Selection: Includes groups exposed and unexposed to a factor.
  • Exposure Measurement: Collect data on exposures and other relevant variables in both groups.
  • Follow-Up and Analysis: Follow groups over time, comparing incidence rates of the disease in exposed and unexposed. Use measures like relative and attributable risk.

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)

  • Purpose: Establish causation in epidemiology.
  • Method: Randomly assign individuals to an intervention group (treatment) or a control group (no treatment).
  • Goal: Assess the impact of the intervention on disease outcomes.
  • Key Feature: Minimizes bias.

RCT Examples in Dentistry

  • RCT on Dental Implants: Various characteristics.
  • RCT on Dental Anxiety: Evaluated the impact of perioperative propranolol.
  • RCT on Oral Health Education: Used the health belief model to improve oral health behaviors.
  • RCT on the Effect of Probiotics on Oral Health.
  • RCT on Fluoride Varnish on Caries Prevention.
  • RCT on Silver Diamine Fluoride on Caries Arrest.
  • RCT on Laser Therapy on Periodontal Disease.

Field Trials/Community Trials

  • Purpose: Assess effectiveness of public health interventions in real-world settings.
  • Method: Implementing interventions in actual communities.
  • Goal: Evaluate community-level impact on disease occurrence/health outcomes.
  • Key Feature: Assess practical effectiveness in real-world settings.

Community Intervention Trial Examples

  • Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation.
  • Field Trial on Oral Health Promotion.
  • Community-Based Intervention for Oral Cancer Prevention.
  • Field Trial on Water Fluoridation.

Clinical Research Designs

  • Clinical research involves evaluating the safety and effectiveness of treatments/interventions using human subjects.

Ethics in Clinical Research

  • Ethics in research is critical to protecting the rights, safety, and well-being of human participants. Ensures scientifically valid and socially responsible research.

Ethical Guidelines

  • Examples: Nuremberg Code, Declaration of Helsinki, Belmont Report, CIOMS, U.S. Common Rule.

Principles Guiding Ethical Research

  • Elements of ethical conduct in research:
    • Scientific validity
    • Social and clinical value
    • Fair subject selection
    • Favorable risk-benefit ratio
    • Independent review
    • Informed consent
    • Respect for potential and enrolled subjects

Ethical issues in clinical research

  • Informed consent
  • Confidentiality
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Vulnerable populations

External Validity and Surrogate Outcomes

  • External Validity in RCTs: Limits of applying results to broader populations.
  • Surrogate Outcomes in Dentistry: Limitations of using clinical outcomes in trials.

Trial design, Data Management, Financial Constraints, Communication of Findings

  • Trial Design: Importance of choosing appropriate designs.
  • Data Management: Importance of accurate, efficient, secure data collection and storage.
  • Financial constraints: Challenges to funding RCTs.
  • Communication of Findings: Effectively communicating results to the public and the scientific community.

Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses

  • Purpose: Summarize best available evidence, identify knowledge gaps, and inform clinical practice guidelines.
  • Process: Involves developing a research question, identifying relevant studies, assessing quality, extracting data, and synthesizing results. Statistical methods are used in meta-analyses to integrate multiple studies.

Process, Advantages, Limitations of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses

  • Process: Developing a research question, searching for relevant studies, assessing quality, data extraction, and synthesizing results. Meta-analysis employs statistical methods to integrate results. Advantages: Providing precise effect sizes or treatment effects, exploring heterogeneity, reconciling conflicting results across individual studies. Limitations: Quality of included studies, publication bias, and suitability for specific research questions.

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