Behaviour change for Oral Health
Are you a dental professional looking to improve your knowledge on how to change dental patients' behaviour? If so, this course is the perfect opportunity for you.
Changing behaviour in dental patients can be a challenging task, as it involves helping individuals to modify their habits and behaviours in order to improve their oral health. This may involve encouraging patients to brush and clean interdentally regularly, to limit their consumption of sugary foods and drinks, or to quit smoking.
Our course on the importance of, and techniques for changing behaviour is designed to provide dental professionals with a comprehensive understanding of this important topic. The course covers a range of topics, including the principles of behaviour change, the challenges and barriers to behaviour change in dental patients, and strategies for supporting and promoting behaviour change in dental practice.
This course, much of which references the "Delivering better oral health" toolkit, is a valuable opportunity for dental professionals who want to improve their knowledge and understanding of this important topic. By participating in this course, you will gain valuable knowledge and skills that you can immediately apply in your practice. Don't miss this opportunity – sign up today!
Participant Feedback Report: Behaviour Change for Oral Health CPD Module
Participants provided exceptionally positive feedback for the Dentaljuce CPD course "Behaviour Change for Oral Health," highlighting its practicality, clarity, and valuable strategies for patient care improvement.
Key Strengths
Participants identified several significant strengths:
Clear and Accessible Content: Learners praised the clear, concise, and easily comprehensible presentation of essential concepts, notably appreciating the structured approach to behavioural change.
- "Clear and informative, easy to understand with good video examples of various scenarios."
- "Easy to understand and comprehend."
Practical Application and Strategies: The practical nature of the course, particularly techniques such as COM-B, OARS, and SMART goals, was highly commended for its applicability in daily clinical practice.
- "Great tips in OARS and SMART. Videos of cases were educational."
- "This course improved the quality of service and good behaviours supporting oral health."
- "It offered practical methods for facilitating behaviour change in patients, stressing the importance of empathy, readiness evaluation, and manageable steps."
Engaging Multimedia Resources: The inclusion of engaging video content and interactive case studies significantly enhanced participant engagement and understanding.
- "Excellent course. The videos are really helpful."
- "I found the case studies and videos most helpful in understanding the lessons of this course."
- "Really good, easy to understand, and videos made it more interesting."
Specific Positive Comments
Participants provided numerous appreciative remarks, including:
- "Excellent, especially videos."
- "Very helpful in patient management."
- "Really enjoyed this module, very interesting and educational."
- "Overall, I found the course valuable and insightful, providing practical strategies to enhance patient care through behaviour change techniques."
Suggestions for Improvement
Participants provided minor suggestions to enhance future iterations, including:
- Reducing repetition of some content.
- Increasing interactive elements and visual aids to further enrich engagement.
Closed-Question Feedback Summary
The course received consistently strong ratings:
- Met Learning Objectives: 98.3% strongly agree/agree
- Good Quality: 98.2% strongly agree/agree
- Useful & Relevant: 98.2% strongly agree/agree
- Engaging: 98.3% strongly agree/agree
- Pitched at Right Level: 94.6% strongly agree/agree
These figures underscore high satisfaction regarding the course’s quality, engagement, and practical relevance.
Overall Participant Impression
Participants highly valued the "Behaviour Change for Oral Health" module, consistently describing it as informative, insightful, and practically beneficial. The course successfully equipped learners with the tools and confidence necessary to effectively implement behavioural change techniques, thereby enhancing patient care and oral health outcomes.
Aim
The aim of the learning and teaching materials in this Dentaljuce module is to allow learners to develop their professional knowledge and competence in changing patient behaviour to improve their oral health, in line with their identified personal learning requirements and the requirements of the UK NHS's "Delivering better oral health" toolkit.
Course objective
- to update members of the dental team with current best practice and techniques in changing patient behaviour.
Anticipated learning outcomes:
The learner will, with respect to the components that he or she has elected to study as listed below:- Understand the behaviours that support oral health.
- Understand the role of the dental team in changing behaviour.
- Learn about the COM-B model for changing behaviour.
- Know how to deal with resistance to behaviour change.
- through achieving these outcomes, provide an improved level of service to their patients.
GDC Development Outcomes
This CPD will support the learner in meeting the following GDC Development Outcome(s): C and D.