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P H Glasrud

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PubMed1988

Future elementary schoolteachers' knowledge and opinions about oral health and community programs.

Dental public health practitioners can play a critical role in assuring that elementary schoolteachers have current, scientifically accurate oral health information upon which to base decisions on behalf of the children they teach. Teachers traditionally have educated children about oral health and often participate in school-based prevention programs. This project examined the knowledge and opinions about oral health and community programs, and the perceived future roles and responsibilities in school-based preventive oral health programs, of 313 elementary education majors enrolled at the University of Minnesota. Descriptive results indicate that these future teachers were ill informed and held inconsistent opinions about basic concepts and information related to oral health and oral health promotion. Findings suggest the need for greater public health efforts directed toward improving oral health knowledge and opinions of this influential population about effective community oral health programs.

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PubMed1985

Insuring preventive dental care: are sealants included?

Lack of third-party reimbursement for pit and fissure sealants has been cited as a barrier preventing increased adoption rates. The extent to which commercial insurance companies and Blue Cross/Blue Shield Associations provide reimbursement for dental sealants is examined with data from a telephone survey. Results indicate that the majority of such third-party payers did not provide reimbursement for sealants.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans↗
PubMed1984

Child life and children's dentistry: broadening our scope of concern.

The Association for the Care of Children's Health has recently broadened its scope of psychosocial concern to include not only children and families in hospitals, but also those in any health care setting. Clinical dental treatment has long been recognized as capable of producing patient apprehension. This paper discusses possible philosophical differences between optimal psychosocial care of children and families and dentistry's current beliefs and practices concerning the proper treatment of child patients. Several areas of opportunity for research and for increased "humanization" in dentistry for children are presented.

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PubMed1981

Child life workers: who are they and what are they doing?

The survey responses from 152 U.S. and Canadian Child Life Programs are presented to describe the backgrounds of Child Life workers and the services they are currently offering to pediatric patients and their families. The majority of Child Life workers tend to be females with training in Child Development, Education, or Recreation Therapy. Although there is variation between Child Life Programs versus those with other titles, the "core" activities of Child Life workers tend to be supervising the activity room, preparing patients/families for medical and surgical procedures, and attending interdisciplinary meetings. The survey findings are used to raise questions for consideration in the further development of the Child Life profession.

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Insurance reimbursement for sealants in 1986: report of a survey.

Lack of reimbursement for pit and fissure sealants by third-party payers is frequently cited as a major barrier to increased use by dental practitioners. An increase in insurance coverage for sealants since January, 1984 may facilitate practitioners' use of the procedure, ultimately improving the public's oral health.

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Dentists' characteristics and child behavior management techniques.

Dentists believe that children's behaviors in the operatory may cause problems, demanding time, attention, and skill. This study explored relationships among several demographic, structural, and attitudinal practitioner characteristics hypothesized to influence dentists' choice of seventeen child behavior management techniques used with nonhandicapped preschool patients. A sixty-item questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of 366 dentists and all thirty-four pedodontists licensed in Minnesota (N = 400), yielding a 67.5 percent response rate. Data were analyzed to determine frequency distributions for all variables, as well as to analyze relationships among seventeen management strategies and all practitioner characteristics. Pearson correlations and chi square tests of significance were used. Findings indicated that the majority of respondents held a negative view of parental involvement in managing preschoolers' behaviors in the operatory. Respondents' stronger agreement with certain authoritarian attitudes, as well as greater degrees of some measures of productivity, were related to higher frequencies of use of physical restraints and nitrous oxide. Many beliefs regarding child behavior management may be based upon professional dogma, particularly those which focus on the importance of establishing authority and control over the child patient, and perhaps, even the parent. Dentistry actively promotes individual acceptance of personal responsibility for one's own oral health, but it appears that the dental care delivery setting for children does not presently reinforce or support this message. If children are expected, as adults, to take responsibility for making wise decisions about oral health and care-seeking behaviors, such decision-making skills need to be fostered during childhood.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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