The effect of social determinants on oral health knowledge and patient's bill of rights

Dental and Medical Problems
Masoud Eisa KhajelouMohammad Asghari Jafarabadi

Abstract

Health knowledge is a requirement in healthcare and having a higher level of health knowledgehelps to promote a satisfactory health status. Also, patients have specific rights within the healthcaresystem, but sometimes they are not aware of their rights. These issues are highly affected by social determinants. The goal of this study was to assess the social determinants of oral health knowledge and theawareness of patient's rights. This was a cross-sectional study conducted on patients referred to private officesand dental clinics in Tabriz, Iran. The study sample consisted of 500 patients and was selected by randomsampling. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. The highest number of the patients (31.9%) were 25-34 years old; 62.2% of the participantswere female and 37.8% were male. Regarding religion, on a 1-10 scale, the majority of the respondents(26.6%) had scored themselves 8. As for oral health knowledge, 84.8% believed that reducing sugar consumptionprevents tooth decay and 96.9% declared that stopping smoking is effective in reducing oral diseases.Regarding patients' awareness of the right to access their medical records, only 40% stated that theyhave such right and 34.2% declared "I don't know", whi...Continue Reading

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