Clinical and Psychosocial Impact of Communication about Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Delivering bad news has been widely studied in cancer, thus, this scoping review aims to identify the available evidence concerning the communication of oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs) and their clinical and psychosocial impacts. A search was performed using electronic databases (Medline/PubMed, Scopus, Embase, and Web of Science) and one grey literature database (Google Scholar). Studies focused on communicating the diagnosis of OPMDs and the patients' perceptions were included. Study selection and data extraction were performed by two authors in a two-phase process. Five publications were included in the qualitative analysis. Differences regarding the study design, population, OPMDs assessed, and outcomes of professional-patient communication were found in each study. Protoc

SUBMITTER: Arboleda LPA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10530221 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature