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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-4-14
pubmed:abstractText
This study examines dentists' perceptions of behaviors felt to interfere with providing adequate dental care to adolescents. We analyzed gender differences, and whether the dentists' perceptions of adolescent patients were associated with their professional satisfaction. A stratified random sample of 227 graduates (males = 180, females = 47) from a Southern dental school were asked to complete a questionnaire assessing professional satisfaction. Based on Kruskall-Wallis analysis of variance tests, female dentists expressed generally higher levels of satisfaction than males with adolescent dentistry, diagnosis and treatment planning, patient education, preventive procedures, and the adolescent dentistry curricula during dental school. Male dentists felt that the male adolescents' failure to keep appointments, communication problems, seeking dental care only in emergency situations, and resentment of authority interfered more with their providing adequate dental care than did female dentists. Male dentists also felt that the female patients' menstrual period, communication problems, low tolerance of pain, seeking dental care only in emergency situations, and resentment toward authority were more significant problems than did the female dentists. Communication problems with both male and female adolescents were more strongly correlated with the dentists' satisfaction with adolescent dentistry than any other variable.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0197-0070
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
46-50
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Dentists' professional satisfaction with adolescent dentistry and its association with adolescent dental health behavior.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article