Journal article
The willingness of US pediatric dentists to use atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) with their patients: a conjoint analysis
Journal of public health dentistry, Vol.74(3), pp.234-240
2014
DOI: 10.1111/jphd.12052
PMCID: PMC4163104
PMID: 24635596
Abstract
The atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) was developed as an affordable, patient-friendly dental caries management procedure that does not need extensive operator training or special skills. The aim of this study was to determine factors that influence the decision to use ART using an innovative marketing research technique known as conjoint analysis. A conjoint survey was completed by 723 members of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Three factors (age of the child, level of cooperation, type of insurance) were varied across three levels to create nine patient scenarios. The weights that practitioners placed on these factors in decisions to use ART in treating carious lesions were determined by conjoint analysis. Factors such as lesion location, depth, and extension were fixed in the nine clinical scenarios. Seven-hundred twenty-three pediatric dentists completed the survey (32 percent). Age of the child was the most important factor in pediatric dentists' decisions to use ART (46 percent) compared with level of cooperation (41 percent) and type of insurance coverage (11 percent). For the age factor, the age of 2 years had the greatest utility (0.55) compared with age 4 (-0.09) and age 6 (-0.46). For types of insurance coverage, having no insurance (0.124) had the greatest utility compared with having public insurance (-0.119). Although insurance coverage was the least important among the factors, being without insurance, being very young, and being uncooperative was the scenario where pediatric dentists most favored ART when making trade offs between different factors using the conjoint design.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The willingness of US pediatric dentists to use atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) with their patients: a conjoint analysis
- Creators
- Elham Talib Kateeb - Oral Health Research and Promotion, Al Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine; Public Policy Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USAJohn WarrenGary GaethPeter DamianoElizabeth MomanyMichael J KanellisKarin Weber-GasparoniTimothy Ansley
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of public health dentistry, Vol.74(3), pp.234-240
- DOI
- 10.1111/jphd.12052
- PMID
- 24635596
- PMCID
- PMC4163104
- NLM abbreviation
- J Public Health Dent
- ISSN
- 0022-4006
- eISSN
- 1752-7325
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- T32 DE014678 / NIDCR NIH HHS T32DE14678-06 / NIDCR NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Preventive and Community Dentistry; Marketing; Health Management and Policy; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Dental Clinic Administration; Pediatric Dentistry; Public Policy Center (Archive); Psychological and Quantitative Foundations; University College Courses; Oral Health Policy Research
- Record Identifier
- 9983917673502771
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