Feasibility of Collecting Saliva for Biological Verification of Tobacco Use Status in Dental Practices and Patients' Homes: Results from the National Dental PBRN.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the feasibility of collecting and analyzing saliva samples from dental practices and patients' homes for biochemical verification of tobacco use status.

Basic research design

Sub-study within single-arm, multi-center, longitudinal clinical study.

Clinical setting

Dental practices in the South Central region of the United States National Dental Practice-Based Research Network and patients' homes.

Participants

Fifty-five patients recruited from 30 dental practices.

Interventions

Participants in the sub-study were instructed on saliva collection for cotinine analysis in dental practices where they enrolled in the primary study. Saliva was collected at the practices and then from patients' homes.

Main outcome measures

Feasibility

SUBMITTER: Stoops WW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6717019 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature