ISSN:0022-4006    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-7325.1988.tb03164.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractDental health care workers (DHCWs) can provide important diagnostic, treatment, and referral services for patients with AIDS and at risk for AIDS. They also have a responsibility to protect all patients in their practices, and themselves, from infectious disease transmission through the use of infection control. To determine the extent to which DHCWs are prepared to assume these responsibilities, a randomized survey of California DHCWs was conducted. Responses were obtained from 297 dentists, 128 hygienists, and 177 dental assistants. DHCWs who expressed a greater willingness to treat people with AIDS or HIV infection also practiced more thorough infection control. Respondents in all groups who perceived a greater percent of their patients to be at risk for AIDS were more likely to use infection control procedures (P<.0001). They also were more willing to treat such patients (P<.004) and were more likely to assess patients for AIDS by taking a thorough medical history (P<.02) and sexual history (P<.04). Since attitudes toward AIDS and perception of the percent of patients at risk in one's practice affect patient assessment and infection control procedures used by dental health care workers, educational programs designed to enhance DHCWs’response to the HIV epidemic should alert them to the extent of the problem and help them cope with their concern

ISSN:0022-4006    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-7325.1988.tb03167.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractDental public health practitioners can play a critical role in assuring that elementary schoolteachers have current, scientifically accurate oral health information upon which to base decisions on behalf of the children they teach. Teachers traditionally have educated children about oral health and often participate in school‐based prevention programs. This project examined the knowledge and opinions about oral health and community programs, and the perceived future roles and responsibilities in school‐based preventive oral health programs, of 313 elementary education majors enrolled at the University of Minnesota. Descriptive results indicate that these future teachers were ill informed and held inconsistent opinions about basic concepts and information related to oral health and oral health promotion. Findings suggest the need for greater public health efforts directed toward improving oral health knowledge and opinions of this influential population about effective community oral health progr

ISSN:0022-4006    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-7325.1988.tb03168.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4006    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-7325.1988.tb03169.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4006    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-7325.1988.tb03170.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4006    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-7325.1988.tb03171.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4006    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-7325.1988.tb03172.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4006    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-7325.1988.tb03173.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4006    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-7325.1988.tb03174.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4006    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-7325.1988.tb03175.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY