インプラント患者と歯科医療従事者におけるリスクコミュニケーションに関するWeb 調査

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to clarify the risk communication between dental care staff and patients for implant treatment. Methods: The subjects of this analysis comprised 497 patients including 47 oral implant patients who were randomly chosen from the consumer panel of goo Research, a web research company. We designed a questionnaire based on three concepts regarding risk communication, "Treatment information provided", "Patient's perception of treatment explanation", and "Exchange of opinions with dental care staff". There were 16 questions in total, such as "Experience in consulting a public agency". IBM SPSS Statistics 19.0 for Windows was used for the analysis. Results: A significantly higher percentage of oral implant patients felt that they were well informed compared to other prosthodontics patients in the questions "Treatment information provided" which included three questions such as "Various treatments" (p<0.01), "An estimate of treatment costs" (p<0.001) and "Demerits, disadvantages and risk of treatment" (p<0.05). In the area of exchange of opinions, a significantly higher percentage of implant patients answered that they had "chance to ask dental care staff" (p<0.01). There was no significant difference in whether the patients consulted public agencies. Conclusion: Most oral implant patients positively evaluated the information provided by dental care staff and communication with them.