Department of Public Health Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Amrita Centre for Evidence Based Oral Health: A JBI Affiliated Group, Amrita School of Dentistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India.
JBI Evid Synth. 2022 Oct 1;20(10):2536-2542. doi: 10.11124/JBIES-22-00063.
The objective of this scoping review is to identify the barriers and facilitators to attending dental care appointments among adults in low- and middle-income countries.
Missed dental appointments are a well-recognized problem in dental care, widely contributing to adverse health care outcomes. Patients' adherence to dental appointments plays a vital role in improving and maintaining oral health. This scoping review will identify and synthesize barriers and facilitators that influence adults in keeping dental appointments.
Studies focusing on barriers and facilitators to dental appointment attendance among adults will be included. The study will include public, private, and university-based dental clinical settings and will be limited to low- and middle-income countries. There will be no restrictions on the source of evidence (primary studies or text/opinion studies) or study design (qualitative or quantitative studies).
The review will follow the JBI methodology for scoping reviews. Studies will be searched in MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source, and Scopus. Databases will be searched from inception until the present. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, OAIster, International Association for Dental Research conference abstracts, and Google Scholar will be searched for unpublished studies. Study screening will be performed by two reviewers, and data extraction will be done using a customized data extraction form. Barriers and facilitators will be categorized based on the Theoretical Domains Framework. The tabulated data and figures will be accompanied by a narrative summary of barriers and facilitators to attending dental care appointments, which may be used to guide further research.
Open Science Framework osf.io/mny8h.
本范围综述的目的是确定中低收入国家成年人看牙预约的障碍和促进因素。
错过牙科预约是牙科护理中一个众所周知的问题，广泛导致不良的医疗保健结果。患者对牙科预约的遵守对改善和维持口腔健康起着至关重要的作用。本范围综述将确定并综合影响成年人按时看牙的障碍和促进因素。
将纳入关注中低收入国家成年人看牙预约的障碍和促进因素的研究。该研究将包括公共、私人和大学牙科临床环境，并且仅限于中低收入国家。对证据来源（主要研究或文本/观点研究）或研究设计（定性或定量研究）没有限制。
本综述将遵循 JBI 方法进行范围综述。研究将在 MEDLINE、Embase、Cochrane 中央对照试验注册库、牙科和口腔科学源以及 Scopus 中进行搜索。将从数据库建立之初搜索到目前为止的所有内容。ProQuest 论文和论文集、OAIster、国际牙科研究协会会议摘要和 Google Scholar 将用于搜索未发表的研究。研究筛选将由两名评审员进行，数据提取将使用定制的数据提取表进行。障碍和促进因素将根据理论领域框架进行分类。表格数据和图表将附有关于参加牙科护理预约的障碍和促进因素的叙述性总结，这些总结可能用于指导进一步的研究。
Open Science Framework osf.io/mny8h。
