Wright F A, Giebartowski J, McMurray N E
Section of Preventive and Community Dentistry, School of Dental Science, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
J Behav Med. 1990 Apr;13(2):175-82. doi: 10.1007/BF00844997.
This study tested a path-analytic model linking three general classes of dentists' characteristics (demographic variables, structural descriptors of the dental practice, and attitudinal factors) to 20 forms of patient management strategy. Information was obtained from 267 dentists from Victoria, Australia. The attitudinal factors were extracted by factor analysis of the responses to a self-report questionnaire. Two of the four attitudinal factors (Authoritarian and Etiology) had sufficient reliability to be included in the path-analytic model. The results of the linear structural relationships modeling (LISREL) indicated that gender, membership of the Australian Society of Dentistry for Children, two attitudinal factors, and the perceived socioeconomic level of the dentist's clientele constituted the strongest determinants of management strategies used by the dentists.
本研究测试了一个路径分析模型，该模型将牙医的三类一般特征（人口统计学变量、牙科诊所的结构描述以及态度因素）与20种患者管理策略联系起来。信息来自澳大利亚维多利亚州的267名牙医。态度因素是通过对一份自我报告问卷的回答进行因素分析得出的。四个态度因素中的两个（专制型和病因型）具有足够的可靠性，可纳入路径分析模型。线性结构关系建模（LISREL）的结果表明，性别、澳大利亚儿童牙科协会会员身份、两个态度因素以及牙医所认为的患者社会经济水平是牙医使用的管理策略的最强决定因素。
