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Enhancement of high risk children's utilization of dental services.

Author(s) -

D. G. OLSON,

Rona L. Levy,

C A Evans,

Steve Olson

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.71.6.631

Subject(s) - medicine , family medicine , treatment and control groups , public health , dental care , pediatrics , nursing , pathology

One hundred twenty-four children identified as needing care in two elementary schools by a routine department of public health screening were randomly assigned to either a standard treatment group (notification to parents by a form letter) or an experimental group that added personal contact to the standard treatment. Overall, 53 percent of the subjects in the experimental condition who needed treatment at the initial screening had received this treatment at follow-up, while only 12 per cent of the subjects in the control group had received needed treatment.

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