Department of Preventive and Social Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Postgraduate Program in Dentistry, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Departament of Stomatology, Postgraduate Program in Dental Sciences, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil.
J Dent Educ. 2023 Jun;87(6):813-824. doi: 10.1002/jdd.13193. Epub 2023 Mar 16.
The aim of this study is to investigate the literature to evaluate dental students' attitudes regarding the treatment of older adults.
A scoping review was performed following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses/PRISMA guidelines to identify articles from four electronic databases: MEDLINE via the PubMed interface, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and AgeLine. Gray literature searches were also performed in Scopus, Web of Science, and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses-Health and Medicine.
Eleven articles were assessed. The majority (72, 72%) were published between 2011 and 2020, evidencing various contexts of dental students, such as different countries and cultures, and levels of education. The most commonly used tool/instrument to survey dental students' attitudes was the Aging Semantic Differential Scale. Student age, race, and marital status did not seem to interfere with dental students' attitudes regarding the treatment of older adults.
Dental students tend to have a positive attitude toward older people. In this context, female students, students who interact with older people, and clinical students have more positive attitudes than male and nonclinical students.
本研究旨在通过文献回顾评估牙科学生对治疗老年人的态度。
本研究遵循系统评价和荟萃分析/PRISMA 指南进行范围综述，以从四个电子数据库（通过 PubMed 接口的 MEDLINE、Embase、护理与健康相关文献累积索引和 AgeLine）中识别文章。还在 Scopus、Web of Science 和 ProQuest Dissertations and Theses-Health and Medicine 中进行了灰色文献搜索。
评估了 11 篇文章。其中大多数（72%，72%）发表于 2011 年至 2020 年，涉及牙科学生的不同背景，如不同的国家和文化，以及教育水平。调查牙科学生对老年人治疗态度最常用的工具/工具是衰老语义差异量表。学生年龄、种族和婚姻状况似乎并不影响牙科学生对老年人治疗的态度。
牙科学生对老年人往往持积极态度。在这种情况下，女学生、与老年人互动的学生和临床学生比男学生和非临床学生的态度更积极。
