Abstract
The article discusses the differences in attitudes towards dental health among persons with and without medical education. The authors described the criteria for assessing the quality of dental care, the preferred quality of a dentist and causes dental phobia in the adult population, as well as highlighted ways to improve compliance and reduce fear and anxiety before visiting the dentist. A total of 88 apparently healthy respondents who do not pass dental treatment at the time of the study (52 women and 36 men) took part in the study (the average age is 32 ± 12.5 years). The following techniques were used: (1) the survey Attitude to Health by R.A. Berezovskaya for assessing the respondents’ attitude to their own health (emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and valuemotivational scales); (2) the Life Quality Scale by N.E. Vodopianova for the assessment of the general life quality index and the self-assessment of the respondents life quality in such categories as: work, personal achievements, health, communication with relatives, support, optimism, tension, self-control, negative emotions; (3) the questionnaire Attitude to dental health developed for research at the Department of General and Clinical Psychology of Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University. Key research findings is: (1) most patients prefer an empathic-non-prescriptive type of dentist; (2) for most patients are important professional and communication skills of the dentist; (3) there are differences in attitudes towards dental health in patients with and without medical education.
Highlights
The article discusses the differences in attitudes towards dental health among persons with and without medical education
The authors described the criteria for assessing the quality of dental care, the preferred quality of a dentist and causes dental phobia in the adult population, as well as highlighted ways to improve compliance and reduce fear and anxiety before visiting the dentist
Vodopianova for the assessment of the general life quality index and the self-assessment of the respondents life quality in such categories as: work, personal achievements, health, communication with relatives, support, optimism, tension, self-control, negative emotions; (3) the questionnaire Attitude to dental health developed for research at the Department of General and Clinical Psychology of Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University
Summary
Первый Санкт-Петербургский государственный медицинский университет имени академика И.П. Несмотря на растущее количество стоматологических клиник в России уровень стоматологического здоровья населения ухудшается, и распространенность заболеваний растет. Что игнорирование стоматологических заболеваний и страх перед посещением стоматолога зарождаются в детском возрасте и носят устойчивый характер в период взрослости. Среди детерминант формирования тревоги или страха перед лечением выделяют: прошлый травматичный опыт лечения, усвоенный от родителей в детском возрасте паттерн поведения, наличие тревожных расстройств у пациента. U. Berggren описал модель последствий стоматологического страха и тревоги, которую многие специалисты называют «порочным кругом» (Berggren, Meynert, 1984). Необходимость качественного и количественного анализа факторов, позволяющих повысить уровень стоматологического здоровья и приверженности пациентов стоматологическому лечению, определили цель исследования, представленного в данной статье
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