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PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH & MEDICINE
Volume 24, Issue 9, Pages 1090-1099Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2019.1595682
Keywords
Patient-centred care; qualitative research; dental services research
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- Ministry of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia
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Adopting a patient-centred approach when engaging with patients has been linked to positive outcomes in medicine. However, in the field of dentistry, patient-centred care (PCC) has been understudied. The aim of this study was to explore dentists' opinions about the usefulness of a theoretical model of PCC and its applicability to a dental setting. Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with dentists working at a major university hospital in south London. The interviews were audiotaped and analysed using thematic analysis. The analysis showed that dentists found the PCC model to be useful for practical application but mostly for 'other' dentists. They viewed the lowest and highest levels of PCC that the model advocates as 'out-dated' and 'ideal', respectively. Dentists felt that giving patients full choice and control over their treatment was not applicable to everyday clinical practice. They expressed that a tool developed on the basis of this hierarchy of PCC could be useful for self-assessment purposes, although with some reservations. In conclusion, dentists seemed to embrace the practice of PCC and felt that their provision of PCC was at an acceptable standard. They believed that a moderate level of information and choice was most suitable for patients.
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