PMID- 11507846
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20011101
LR  - 20191025
IS  - 0275-1879 (Print)
IS  - 0275-1879 (Linking)
VI  - 21
IP  - 3
DP  - 2001 May-Jun
TI  - Attitudes of dentists, working in Riyadh, toward people with a sensory 
      impairment.
PG  - 113-6
AB  - This study was conducted to determine the attitudes of dentists, working in 
      Riyadh, toward people with a sensory impairment (SI), according to the Scale of 
      Attitude Towards Disabled Persons (SADP). The SADP scale was modified to focus 
      solely upon sensory impairment. The modified scale was pre-tested and then 
      incorporated into a self-administered questionnaire. This was then administered 
      to 600 dentists (response rate, 73.7%) working in the city of Riyadh, Saudi 
      Arabia. The modified scale showed itself to be reliable, with a Chronbach's 
      coefficient alpha 0.616 and four-factor analysis, which accounted for 38.5% of 
      the variance. Ninety-four percent of the dentists were generally positive toward 
      SI in the society. There were, however, significant variations in attitudes, with 
      a more positive score for dentists who had worked for 30 years or more (p < 
      0.005), were specialists (p < 0.005), received little or no undergraduate 
      training in this subject (p < 0.05), and who received their undergraduate 
      training in Europe/North America (p < 0.001). However, in a stepwise regression 
      model, all these variables were significant except for the years of practice. The 
      modified SADP showed dentists, working in Saudi Arabia, having a positive 
      attitude toward people with SI.
FAU - alSarheed, M
AU  - alSarheed M
AD  - WHO Collaborating Centre for Disability, Culture and Oral Health, Department of 
      Transcultural Oral Health, University College London, 256 Gray's Inn Road, London 
      WC1X 8LD, UK.
FAU - Bedi, R
AU  - Bedi R
FAU - Hunt, N P
AU  - Hunt NP
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Spec Care Dentist
JT  - Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of 
      Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American 
      Society for Geriatric Dentistry
JID - 8103755
MH  - Adult
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - *Attitude of Health Personnel
MH  - *Dentists
MH  - Education, Dental
MH  - Employment
MH  - Europe
MH  - Humans
MH  - Logistic Models
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Morals
MH  - North America
MH  - *Persons With Hearing Impairments
MH  - Professional Practice
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Saudi Arabia
MH  - Self-Assessment
MH  - Social Environment
MH  - Specialties, Dental
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Time Factors
MH  - *Visually Impaired Persons
EDAT- 2001/08/18 10:00
MHDA- 2001/11/03 10:01
CRDT- 2001/08/18 10:00
PHST- 2001/08/18 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2001/11/03 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2001/08/18 10:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2001.tb00237.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Spec Care Dentist. 2001 May-Jun;21(3):113-6. doi: 
      10.1111/j.1754-4505.2001.tb00237.x.