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Concordance between undergraduate dental students and their lecturers in their attitudes towards difficult patients.
- Source :
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European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe [Eur J Dent Educ] 2002 Nov; Vol. 6 (4), pp. 141-6. - Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- The 'difficult' patient syndrome is caused by an imbalance in the dentist-patient relationship which may be influenced by human, cultural and psychosocial factors. The aim of this study was to compare the concordance between undergraduate dental students and lecturers in the degree of difficulty assigned to vignettes describing 'difficult' patients and to describe the extent to which ratings are influenced by gender, place of study and experience of specific 'difficult' patients. A questionnaire with 21 patient-stereotypes identified as difficult from the specialized literature was prepared. Both students and lecturers had to determine the degree of difficulty of each stereotype on a Likert-like scale. The students selected were in the final 2 years before graduation in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and Porto (Portugal) Dental Schools. Lecturers were selected by simple random sampling method. Both lecturers and undergraduate students found more difficulty in those patients classified as aggressive, manipulative help-rejecters or patients with invasive companions. On the other hand, drug abusers and HIV-positive patients were ranked as presenting low levels of difficulty. Our results seem to point to the need of improving undergraduate teaching and learning of specific procedures for the management of aggressive or stubborn patients and those with invasive companions.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Chi-Square Distribution
Female
Humans
Male
Personality
Portugal
Sex Factors
Spain
Statistics, Nonparametric
Stereotyping
Surveys and Questionnaires
Attitude of Health Personnel
Dentist-Patient Relations
Education, Dental
Faculty, Dental
Patient Acceptance of Health Care psychology
Students, Dental psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1396-5883
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12410664
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0579.2002.00250.x