Rakowski W, Kerschbaum W E, McGowan J M
J Dent Educ. 1984 Jun;48(6):302-8.
The future orientation that health care providers have toward old age has been proposed as one factor that contributes to unfavorable perceptions of older patients. Two samples of students from a dental hygiene program (n1 = 145; n2 = 100) were questioned about their general attitudes toward older people, older people as patients, their own future, the future for older adults, and about their social/familial contact with the elderly. Discriminant function analysis supported the importance of both views of the future and social/familial background for general attitudes and perceptions of patients.
医疗保健提供者对老年的未来取向被认为是导致对老年患者产生负面看法的一个因素。对来自一个口腔卫生项目的两组学生样本（n1 = 145；n2 = 100）进行了询问，了解他们对老年人、老年患者、自己的未来、老年人的未来的总体态度，以及他们与老年人的社会/家庭接触情况。判别函数分析支持了未来观和社会/家庭背景对于对患者的总体态度和看法的重要性。
