Use of dental services among Danish youths: role of the social environment, the individual, and the delivery system

Lissau, Inge; Holst, Dor­the; Friis-Hasché, E

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1989.tb00001.x

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“…It is very rare internationally and in health care generally to have no socioeconomic differences in the utilization of health care services. Usually, predisposing, enabling and need faetors at-e associated with dental visits (36) and thet-efot-e soeioeconomic diffet-ences in the use of dental care have been very clear (25,30,(37)(38)(39), However, school dental care with an organized system of recall has been shown to reduce these differences (15,23), Equality in dental cat-e seetns to have been aehieved vet-y well in Finland since 1985. Equity has also been approached, because the national statistics show that almost all the ehildt-en examined have also been tt-eated aecording to their individual preventive and restorative treatment need as determined by a health center dentist (7).…”

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Dental services utilization between 1977 and 1995 by Finnish adolescents of different socioeconomic levels

Honkala

Kuusela

Rimpelä

et al. 1997

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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Equal distribution of health care services has long been a major goal of health policy in the Nordic countries. According to these guidelines, every child is expected to have an examination and treatment at least every second year. The aim of this study was to analyze the trends and, in particular, the socioeconomic differences in dental visits between 1977 and 1995. The data were collected as part of a nationwide research program, the Adolescent Health and Lifestyle Survey, which began in 1977. Every second year a self-administered questionnaire was mailed to a representative sample of 14-, 16- and 18-year-old Finns. The sample sizes in the surveys varied from 2422 to 9556, making a total of 56,605 subjects in the whole study. The response rates in different years varied from 77% to 88%. The percentage of adolescents visiting a dentist increased between 1977 and 1981 and thereafter remained stable. Dental visits seemed to correlate with the occupational and educational status of the parents up to 1983, but not after that. The Finnish primary oral health care policy seems to have gained a major objective by eliminating social inequality in dental service utilization among adolescents.

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Dental services utilization between 1977 and 1995 by Finnish adolescents of different socioeconomic levels

Honkala

Kuusela

Rimpelä

et al. 1997

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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“…However, one of the items,`d uring the last 5 yr I have forgotten to go to a dental appointment'', showed fair reliability and validity. Also previous research has indicated that forgetting appointments is a common behavior, or one of the adolescents' most prevalent excuses towards themselves and others for their non-attendance behavior (16). This item was therefore included as one of the independent variables in the present study.…”

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“…In a recent study among adolescents in Norway, 16.4% of them had missed or cancelled more than 20% of their dental appointments during the age period from 12±18 yr. Dental anxiety seemed to be the major reason for 38% of them (2).…”

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Factors related to missed and cancelled dental appointments among adolescents in Norway

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Kvale

et al. 2000

European J Oral Sciences

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The aim of this study was to explore possible explanatory factors related to high frequency of missed/cancelled dental appointments during the age group 12-18 yr. A total of 754 20 yr olds completed a questionnaire including variables measuring demographics, occupation (school/job), attendance pattern, attitudes to dentists, opinion about importance of dental treatment, and the psychometric scales Dental Fear Scale (DFS), Dental Beliefs Survey (DBS) and Geer Fear Scale (GFS). Based on written consents, the following data were recorded from their dental records: the total number of scheduled appointments, the number of missed and cancelled appointments and the individual caries experience of those in the age group 12-18 yr. A total of 124 subjects who had missed/cancelled 20% or more of their dental appointments during this age were defined as a target group. A stepwise regression model indicated that the likelihood of being included in the target group increased by a factor of 6.0 if the subject had forgotten dental appointments during the last 5 yr, by a factor of 3.5 for working or without specified occupation (as opposed to attending school), by a factor of 2.7 for negative beliefs of dentists, and by a factor of 2.1 for high caries experience.

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“…The relationship between dental anxiety and irregular dental attendance and avoidance of dental care is well established [7-10], and also the differences by gender and age, with higher prevalence of dental anxiety in women than in men [2]. Dental attendance is influenced by socioeconomic variables [11-13], while the relationship between those factors and dental anxiety is more unclear [4]. …”

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Dental anxiety and dental attendance among 25-year-olds in Norway: time trends from 1997 to 2007

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BackgroundSo far, there are few studies considering the development of dental anxiety and dental attendance patterns across time in the general population of Norwegian adults. This study aimed to 1) determine the frequency of dental anxiety and regular dental attendance among 25-year-olds in Norway in 1997 and 2007, 2) to study the development (time trend) of dental anxiety and the socio-behavioral distribution of dental anxiety from 1997 to 2007.MethodRandom samples of 1,190 and 8,000 25-yr-olds were drawn from the populations of three counties in Western Norway in 1997 and 2007, respectively. The eligible participants received questionnaires by mail including questions on socio-demographics, dental anxiety (DAS) and dental attendance.ResultsIn 1997, 11.5% males versus 23% females reported high dental anxiety (DAS ≥ 13). Corresponding figures in 2007 were 11.3% and 19.8%. The proportions who had attended yearly for a dental check-up during the past 5 years fell from 62% in 1997 (men 56.9% and women 66.4%) to 44.6% (men 38.1% and women 48.6%) in 2007. After controlling for potential confounding factors, the 25-year-olds were 1.4 times more likely to report dental anxiety in 1997 compared to 2007. The decrease was largely attributable to a lower mean DAS score among higher educated females in 2007 than in 1997. The discrepancy in dental anxiety between regular and non-regular dental attendees had decreased, largely attributable to a decline in dental anxiety among irregular dental attendees.ConclusionThe study showed reduced dental anxiety and dental attendance among 25 year-olds in Norway from 1997 to 2007. This study points to the importance of controlling for possible changes in socio-demographic distributions when different cohorts are compared.

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Use of dental services among Danish youths: role of the social environment, the individual, and the delivery system

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Dental services utilization between 1977 and 1995 by Finnish adolescents of different socioeconomic levels

Dental services utilization between 1977 and 1995 by Finnish adolescents of different socioeconomic levels

Factors related to missed and cancelled dental appointments among adolescents in Norway

Dental anxiety and dental attendance among 25-year-olds in Norway: time trends from 1997 to 2007

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