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Subjective Need (subjective + need)

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Medical Sciences	100%

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Subjective Need for Implant Treatment among Middle-aged People in Sweden and Denmark

CLINICAL IMPLANT DENTISTRY AND RELATED RESEARCH, Issue 1 2002
Mats Kronström DDS
ABSTRACT Background: The use of oral implants in prosthodontics has become widespread and regarded as a predictable treatment modality. However, there is a lack of knowledge among the general population about the prevalence and need for implant treatments. Purpose: This study was undertaken to register and compare the prevalence of dental implants and the subjective need for implant treatment among people in Sweden and Denmark. Materials and Methods: Random samples taken from the national population registers in Sweden and Denmark comprised 1001 Swedish subjects aged 55 to 79 years and 1175 Danish subjects aged 45 to 69 years. Subjects were requested to fill out questionnaires regarding dental conditions, subjective need for implant treatment, whether they had received treatment with dental implants during the previous 10 years, and so on. Results: Of the Swedes, 4.8% reported that they had dental implants, compared with 2.5% of the Danes. In the Swedish sample, age was significantly associated with subjective need for implant treatment. In the Danish sample, women showed a significantly higher subjective need for implant treatment than did men. Conclusions: Compared with the Swedish sample, the subjective need for treatment with dental implants was higher in the Danish sample, although the patient fees were substantially higher in Denmark. [source]

Factor analysis of ADAPT questionnaire for assessment of subjective need for psychological interventions

INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES, Issue 1 2008
Wolfgang Miehsler MD
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Prosthetic treatment need in a representative German sample*

JOURNAL OF ORAL REHABILITATION, Issue 8 2001
M. H. Walter
Regarding declining resources epidemiological data on needs for oral rehabilitation are required. Within the framework of an oral health survey a non-stratified two-stage random sample was taken to represent the over 14-year-old population of Saxony/Germany. The participation rate was 55%. Normative need was determined by dental assessment and guidelines developed in a consensus process, subjective prosthetic treatment need by self-complete questionnaire. About 97% of the realized sample could be planned within the guidelines. About 81% had normative prosthetic treatment need. Compared with the rate of normative need the rate of subjective need (13%) was considerably lower (,2P < 0,01). Different predictive parameters of subjective need were identified by logistic regression. Besides other factors subjective need was associated with giving dentist's recommendation as significant reason for prosthetic restorations [odds ratio (OR)=5,43], not believing that the own teeth were all right (OR=0,17), and the existence of prosthetic restorations (OR=3,87 for fixed restorations; OR=4,05 for removable dentures). The guidelines proved their suitability to assess normative prosthetic treatment need in oral health surveys. Further research is necessary to find adequate options for including patients' preferences in an adequate need definition. [source]

IPOS Sutherland Memorial Lecture: psycho-oncology and health care research

PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY, Issue 6 2008
Uwe KochArticle first published online: 2 MAY 200
Abstract Remarkable changes of health-care systems, increasing costs of health care and of social inequality in modern societies, an aging population and the increase of chronic illnesses such as cancer implicate various future challenges for the provision of health care. Health-care research aims to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of patient-oriented services involving the evaluation of innovative treatment approaches and settings. It deals with the patients' path through different areas of health-care systems in order to identify significant factors for the provision of quality assurance of structures and resources concerning treatments, processes and health outcomes. Health-care research focusses on three main topics that play an important role for quality management: (1) the admission to health-care services and assessment strategies including indication, utilization and specificity of settings and target groups; (2) the treatment process including the implementation, standardization and flexibility of services and dose-effect relationship of interventions; (3) health-care outcome including effectiveness and efficiency of interventions and services, the cost-benefit relationship and the transfer from research to health-care practice. Given the objectives of health-care research, the topics of health-care research in psychosocial care for cancer patients include the study of structural conditions of psycho-oncological services, the epidemiology of distress and mental disorders and the subjective need of psycho-oncological support in cancer patients, the improvement of psycho-oncological measures and assessment strategies in daily treatment, the study of psycho-oncological interventions under routine conditions, and quality assurance. Requirements of future health-care research and developments of psycho-oncology including aspects of orientation, strategies, health-care equity, and resources are discussed. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]