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Table 3 Professional participants’ change in confidence in dental treatment of patients with different types of substance use disorders before and after the ECHO program (overall average scores across six cohorts)

From: Launching an innovative educational model addressing substance use disorders and dental pain management (Project ECHO® in dentistry)

Statement: I am _ treating patients with

N

Pre-program mean (SD)

Percentage moderately/extremely confident

Post-program mean (SD)

Percentage moderately/extremely confident

p value*

Opioid use disorder

88

3.09 (1.07)

38.7

3.89 (0.78)

72.8

 < 0.001

Alcohol use disorder

89

3.16 (1.08)

40.0

3.77 (0.81)

68.0

 < 0.001

Benzodiazepine use disorder

89

3.46 (1.02)

56.2

4.14 (0.76)

78.0

 < 0.001

Methamphetamine use disorder

78

2.99 (1.05)

31.5

3.86 (0.86)

68.2

 < 0.001

Tobacco use disorder

79

3.47 (1.06)

49.5

4.03 (0.91)

77.9

 < 0.001

  1. (1) Not at all confident | (2) Not very confident | (3) Neutral (neither confident nor not confident) | (4) Moderately confident | (5) Extremely confident
  2. *Paired t-test, pre- and post-means (2-tailed):