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Dental hygiene students' future orientation and perceptions of old age and of older persons
Author(s) -
Rakowski W,
Kerschbaum WE,
McGowan JM
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.1984.48.6.tb01796.x
Subject(s) - perception , dental hygiene , hygiene , oral hygiene , older people , orientation (vector space) , medicine , psychology , discriminant function analysis , gerontology , family medicine , dentistry , geometry , mathematics , pathology , neuroscience , machine learning , computer science
The future orientation that health care providers have toward old age has been proposed as one factor that contributes to unfavorable perceptions of older patients. Two samples of students from a dental hygiene program (n1 = 145; n2 = 100) were questioned about their general attitudes toward older people, older people as patients, their own future, the future for older adults, and about their social/familial contact with the elderly. Discriminant function analysis supported the importance of both views of the future and social/familial background for general attitudes and perceptions of patients.