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Priorities for oral health goals in a sample of older adults
Author(s) -
Stoller Eleanor Palo,
Pyle Marsha A.,
Perzynski Adam T.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
special care in dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1754-4505
pISSN - 0275-1879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2004.tb01696.x
Subject(s) - medicine , coding (social sciences) , oral health , older people , population , set (abstract data type) , dental health , health professionals , sample (material) , gerontology , family medicine , health care , environmental health , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , computer science , programming language , economics , economic growth
This study was conducted to identify oral health factors that are important to people who are elderly. By identifying factors valued by patients who are older, dental professionals can gain better insights into the preferences and priorities that patients use in making dental treatment decisions. To determine which factors are important to this population, we compiled a list of oral health goals identified through a literature review. To supplement this initial list, we undertook line‐by‐line (open) coding of transcripts of two sets of semi‐structured interviews. The first set of interviews explored the decision of older adults to seek treatment in response tooth pain. The second set of interviews elicited anticipated responses to three scenarios involving extensive restoration and one scenario involving extraction and prosthetic replacement among older patients at a dental school.