Patients' comfort with and receipt of health risk assessments during routine dental visits : Results from the South Atlantic region of the US National Dental Practice-Based Research Network

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OBJECTIVES: To understand patients' comfort with health risk assessments (HRAs) and patient and dentist factors associated with the provision of HRAs.

METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 857 patients seen by 30 dental practitioners in the United States National Dental Practice-Based Research Network reported their comfort receiving HRA for six risk factors (tobacco use, alcohol use, dietary sugar intake, human immunodeficiency virus risks, human papillomavirus risks and existing medical conditions) and whether they discussed any of the risk factors during their visits. Multi-level logistic models were used to examine the impacts of patient, practitioner, practice characteristics on the (1) number of risk factors patients were comfortable discussing and (2) number of risk factors assessed in the current dental visit.

RESULTS: Only a small percentage (4%) of patients reported being uncomfortable receiving any HRA during their dental visits. However, over half of the patients (53%) reported that they did not receive any HRAs during the current visit. In the regression analyses, patients who were older, male and from the suburban were more likely to be comfortable with more HRAs. Dentists were more likely to provide HRA if they were younger, not non-Hispanic white, less likely to feel that providing HRAs was beyond their scope of practice, yet more likely to feel occasional discomfort in providing HRA.

CONCLUSIONS: Interventions should focus on reducing dental practitioner perception that conducting HRAs is beyond their scope of practice and standardizing screening assessments for multiple risk factors.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:51

Enthalten in:

Community dentistry and oral epidemiology - 51(2023), 5 vom: 17. Okt., Seite 854-863

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guo, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Woodard, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yahan [VerfasserIn]
Staras, Stephanie A S [VerfasserIn]
Gordan, Valeria V [VerfasserIn]
Gilbert, Gregg H [VerfasserIn]
McEdward, Deborah L [VerfasserIn]
Shenkman, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]
National Dental Practice-Based Research Network Collaborative Group [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Behaviour
Dental clinics
Health promotion
Health status
Journal Article
Perception
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 19.09.2023

Date Revised 18.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/cdoe.12773

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM34372037X