Exploring preferences of older adults for dental services: A pilot multi-national discrete choice experiment.

Objectives: To pilot an exploration of older adults' future preferences using discrete choice experiments to understand who should provide dental examinations and treatment, where these services should be provided, and participants' willingness to pay and willingness to travel.

Background: The proportion of older adults in the general population is increasing and is recognised as a pressing public health challenge.

Materials And Methods: Older people aged 65 years and over were recruited into this study from the UK, Switzerland and Greece.

Preliminary validation of the Dental Clinical Learning Environment Instrument in a Brazilian dental school.

Introduction: This study aimed to perform a preliminary validation of the Dental Clinical Learning Environment Instrument (DECLEI) in a Brazilian dental school.

Material And Methods: Dental Clinical Learning Environment Instrument was translated into Brazilian-Portuguese, and Brazilian DECLEI's items relevance and content validity were assessed using the content validity index (CVI). DECLEI was then distributed to 155 Brazilian undergraduate dental students attending the 7th and 8th semester of dental studies.

Dual institution validation of an ageism scale for dental students.

Purpose/aim: Ageism negatively affects health care. This paper presents an extended validation of a novel scale assessing ageism among dental students.

Method And Materials: A previously pilot-tested 27-question scale applied to a larger sample (n = 315) from two U.

Preliminary Validation of an Instrument to Assess Students' Perceptions of Clinical Learning Environments at U.S. Dental Schools.

Research on dental students' perceptions of clinical learning environments is needed to identify strengths, weaknesses, and need for interventions to sustain high-quality dental education, but a primary challenge has been the absence of an instrument designed to assess these perceptions. The Dental Clinical Learning Environment Instrument (DECLEI) is a new instrument developed specifically for dental clinical learning environments according to psychometric standards and validated in Europe. The aim of this study was to perform a preliminary validation of DECLEI in a U.

Variation in oral health parameters between older people with and without mental disorders.

This study investigated the variation in the oral examination findings and the subjective oral complaints between older people with and without mental disorders. An interview and an oral investigation were performed in a group of older patients with mental disorders with a mean age of 71.9 years and in a group of older people without mental disease with a mean age of 70.