Journal article
Factors related to the willingness of Palestinian dentists to treat patients with blood-borne diseases
International dental journal, Vol.65(2), pp.103-109
04/01/2015
DOI: 10.1111/idj.12138
PMCID: PMC9376542
PMID: 25345747
Abstract
This study aimed to explore, using groups of simulated patients, the willingness of Palestinian dentists to treat patients with blood-borne diseases. Simulated patients conducted a telephone survey of a random sample of dentists registered with the Palestinian Dental Association. A random system was used to assign dentists to one of two groups, in which simulated patients randomly identified themselves with either human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis B virus (HBV) and asked for a dental appointment. Three-hundred and four dentists (76%) responded to our telephone survey. Sixty-six per cent accepted requests for appointments and 34% declined the appointment requests. Sixty-eight per cent of the dentists declined appointment requests from patients with HIV and 32% declined appointments from patients with HBV. Dentist's gender, blood-borne disease type', place of private practice', country of graduation' and years since graduation' were all significant predictors in the final logistic model. More than one-third of our respondents declined appointment requests from patients with blood-borne disease, two-thirds of which were for patients who identified themselves as having HIV. Education and training programmes are needed to improve attitudes of dentists - especially female dentists, older dentists and dentists practising in northern governorates - towards patients with blood-borne diseases.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Factors related to the willingness of Palestinian dentists to treat patients with blood-borne diseases
- Creators
- Elham Kateeb - University of IowaRafat Amer - The Ohio State UniversityMusa Bajali - Al-Quds University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- International dental journal, Vol.65(2), pp.103-109
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1111/idj.12138
- PMID
- 25345747
- PMCID
- PMC9376542
- ISSN
- 0020-6539
- eISSN
- 1875-595X
- Number of pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2015
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984283561602771
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