OBJECTIVES To assess Iranian dentists' knowledge of and attitudes towards preventive dental care. METHODS A questionnaire survey was conducted at two nationwide annual dental congresses in 2004 and 2005 in Tehran, Iran. Dentists' level of knowledge was assessed based on their responses on a Likert scale (0-4) to nine statements on preventive dental care. Higher scores indicated more accurate ...

PURPOSE Research suggests that physicians neglect preventive care for cancer survivors. A survivor's self-motivation with respect to preventive care is unknown. Using protective skin care as a proxy, our aims were to characterize preventive care in cancer survivors and to identify factors associated with appropriate prevention. METHODS Using data from the 2009 U.S. Health Information National...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that African Americans and rural patients receive fewer preventive services than other patients. OBJECTIVE To compare the use of preventive services by African Americans in urban and rural settings to determine if race and rural residence were additive risks for not obtaining preventive services. METHODS Three hundred African American patients seeking care in f...

Australia has begun to encourage and financially reward general practitioners for implementing preventive activities. While an expanding preventive agenda for general practice remains attractive, there is a real potential for opportunity costs, especially in the absence of realistic practice-based support for preventive care. These costs may include a shift from the needs of individual patients...

BACKGROUND To study the association between oral health behaviour of senior dental students in Nigeria and their gender, age, knowledge of preventive care, and attitudes towards preventive dentistry. METHODS Questionnaires were administered to 179 senior dental students in the six dental schools in Nigeria. The questionnaire obtained information on age, gender, oral self-care, knowledge of pr...

Physicians who provide primary care for children are considered to be in a unique position to provide dental preventive care to their patients. No literature relates the amount of preventive oral health education that physicians receive during training. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of pediatricians and family physicians toward preventive dental c...

We compared preventive care performed by 20 generalists and 20 subspecialists practicing in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, California, by auditing charts of adult primary care patients for compliance with recommendations of the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. Generalists and subspecialists both provided 49 per cent of recommended preventive services. The two groups ...