What do systematic reviews say?

Summary of findings: multimedia education vs control multimedia

• Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over‐the‐counter medications 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 303 participants
  Moderate

Summary of findings: multimedia education and a co‐intervention vs co‐intervention alone

• Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over‐the‐counter medications 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  2 studies · 381 participants
  Moderate

Summary of findings: multimedia education and a co‐intervention vs co‐intervention alone

• Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over‐the‐counter medications 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 87 participants
  Very low

Summary of findings: multimedia education and a co‐intervention vs co‐intervention alone

• Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over‐the‐counter medications 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 320 participants
  Low

Summary of findings: multimedia education and a co‐intervention vs co‐intervention alone

Summary of findings: multimedia education and a co‐intervention showed no clear difference in health outcome (Number who had a medical complication of pelvic… compared with co‐intervention alone (low certainty).

• Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over‐the‐counter medications 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  RR 1.14 [0.61, 2.13]
  1 study · 77 participants
  Low

Summary of findings: multimedia education and a co‐intervention vs co‐intervention alone

• Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over‐the‐counter medications 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 60 participants
  Very low

Summary of findings: multimedia education and a co‐intervention vs co‐intervention alone

The review found no eligible studies for this question.

• Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over‐the‐counter medications 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  Studies not reported
  No studies found

Summary of findings: multimedia education and a co‐intervention vs co‐intervention alone

• Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over‐the‐counter medications 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 60 participants
  Low

Comparison 4: provision of electronic health information with training/education vs no education

• Interventions to increase the use of electronic health information by healthcare practitioners to improve clinical… 2015 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  183 participants
  Low

Psychological / counselling interventions (counselling, acupuncture, cognitive behavioural therapy, relaxation therapy, behaviour modification, electromyographic biofeedback, hypnosis, re-education) vs Another intervention, or no intervention

The review found no eligible studies for this question.

• Interventions for iatrogenic inferior alveolar and lingual nerve injury 2014 · Cochrane All outcomes
  Results: 'No studies evaluated ... psychological interventions.' No eligible RCT of psychological / counselling interventions (CBT, relaxation, behaviour modification, biofeedback, hypnosis, re-education, acupuncture).
  0 studies
  No studies found

Strategies to integrate oral health into primary care (e.g., training/education of non-dental primary care professionals, policy/financing and health-insurance changes, colocation of dental and medical services, interprofessional and community-health-worker collaboration, teledentistry, integrated oral health assessment tools, school-based activities) vs No integration / usual care (or pre-integration baseline; many included studies uncontrolled)

Most strategies to integrate oral health into primary care were associated with improved access to oral healthcare (19 studies, narrative synthesis; ungraded).

• Strategies to integrate oral health into primary care: a systematic review. 2023 All outcomes

  Primary care, community, school, and aged-care/residential/nursing-home settings
  Access to oral healthcare was the primary outcome most studied (n=19). Most studies reported results favouring the integration strategy, including improvements in referral pathways, documentation processes, operating…
  19 studies
  GRADE not reported

Strategies to integrate oral health into primary care (e.g., training/education of non-dental primary care professionals, policy/financing and health-insurance changes, colocation of dental and medical services, interprofessional and community-health-worker collaboration, teledentistry, integrated oral health assessment tools, school-based activities) vs No integration / usual care (or pre-integration baseline; many included studies uncontrolled)

Key barriers to implementing integration strategies were time/staff/resource constraints and lack of organisational support, while facilitators were professionals' knowledge and attitudes and supportive governance/leadership (qualitative; ungraded).

• Strategies to integrate oral health into primary care: a systematic review. 2023 All outcomes

  Primary care, community, school, and aged-care/residential/nursing-home settings
  The most commonly studied qualitative outcomes were barriers and facilitators related to the strategy implementation process. Reported barriers were time and staff constraints, resource limitations and lack of…
  15 studies
  GRADE not reported

Strategies to integrate oral health into primary care (e.g., training/education of non-dental primary care professionals, policy/financing and health-insurance changes, colocation of dental and medical services, interprofessional and community-health-worker collaboration, teledentistry, integrated oral health assessment tools, school-based activities) vs No integration / usual care (or pre-integration baseline; many included studies uncontrolled)

Most studies reported improved oral disease outcomes with integration strategies (8 of 9 studies improved, 1 no change; 9 studies, narrative synthesis; ungraded).

• Strategies to integrate oral health into primary care: a systematic review. 2023 All outcomes

  Primary care, community, school, and aged-care/residential/nursing-home settings
  Nine studies reported oral disease outcomes, seven of which measured change in dental caries estimates. Eight of the nine studies reported improved oral disease outcomes; one (Vichayanrat 2012) reported no change in…
  9 studies
  GRADE not reported