General dental practitioners' knowledge, attitudes and practice towards psychoactive substance use screening: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Issues

Dentists can play a key role in screening for psychoactive substances use. This systematic review aimed to identify the knowledge, attitudes and practices of dentists related to screening for use of psychoactive substances and the facilitating factors and barriers.

Approach

According to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses, four databases were searched until July 2024 to identify reports relating to screening for substance use by dentists. Search terms used key words relating to knowledge, attitudes or practices concerning the screening of tobacco, alcohol or any other substance use.

Key findings

Twenty reports met the inclusion criteria for this review. In practice, dentists were more likely to identify tobacco use than alcohol or

SUBMITTER: Fouillen KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11814361 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature