Perception and intention of dentists toward clinical volunteering for continuing education credits for license renewal.

IF 3.5 2区医学 Q1 DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE

Journal of the American Dental Association Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI:10.1016/j.adaj.2025.07.018

Grace F Gomez, Kristin A Williams, Catherine Demko, Sena Narendran

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Abstract

Background: Certain state dental boards permit dentists to apply continuing education (CE) credits from clinical volunteerism toward license renewal. The authors assessed Ohio dentists' perceptions about, and intention toward, clinical volunteerism and their awareness of such CE credit benefits.

Methods: An internet-based self-administered questionnaire about demographic, professional, and practice characteristics; perception about clinical volunteerism; and awareness of CE credit benefits was emailed to 6,281 dentists. Ten Likert scale items measured respondents' behavioral, normative, and control belief agreement levels about clinical volunteerism. Data analyses included descriptives, Spearman rank correlation, median test, computation of odds ratio (95% CI), and logistic regression.

Results: Survey response rate was 6.5%; 59.1% of respondents were male, 80.3% were White, and 56% had more than 25 years of clinical practice. Some respondents (27.8%) accepted public health insurance in their practices, and only 35.7% were aware of the CE credit benefits for clinical volunteerism. Among the respondents, 81.5% believed that volunteering oral health care services was important, 78.3% were willing to help underserved communities, and 68.5% had provided nearly 40 hours of pro bono oral health care in the previous 2 years. The following were the significant predictors of respondents' intention to volunteer, confirmed by the 95% CI for the adjusted odds ratios: younger age (95% CI, 1.22 to 3.74), race and ethnicity (95% CI, 1.19 to 5.85), provision of pro bono oral health care (95% CI, 1.89 to 5.57), and more than 25 years in practice (95% CI, 1.81 to 5.58).

Conclusions: The authors identified a need to publicize the CE credit benefits from clinical volunteerism toward license renewal.

Practical implications: Dentists' positive perceptions of clinical volunteerism and intention to volunteer could help improve oral health care access to underserved populations.

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牙医对继续教育学分的临床志愿服务的认知和意图。

背景：某些州牙科委员会允许牙医从临床志愿服务中申请继续教育（CE）学分来更新执照。作者评估了俄亥俄州牙医对临床志愿服务的看法和意图，以及他们对这种CE信用福利的认识。方法：采用基于互联网的人口统计、专业和执业特征自填问卷；临床志愿服务认知；通过电子邮件向6281名牙医发送了关于CE信贷福利的意识。十个李克特量表项目测量了被调查者关于临床志愿服务的行为、规范和控制信念的一致水平。数据分析包括描述性、Spearman秩相关、中位数检验、优势比（95% CI）计算和逻辑回归。结果：调查回复率为6.5%；男性占59.1%，白人占80.3%，临床经验在25年以上的占56%。一些受访者（27.8%）在他们的实践中接受了公共健康保险，只有35.7%的人知道临床志愿服务的CE信贷好处。81.5%的受访者认为志愿口腔保健服务很重要，78.3%的受访者愿意帮助服务不足的社区，68.5%的受访者在过去2年中提供了近40小时的无偿口腔保健服务。以下是受访者志愿意愿的重要预测因素，经调整优势比的95% CI证实：年龄较小（95% CI， 1.22至3.74），种族和民族（95% CI， 1.19至5.85），提供无偿口腔卫生保健（95% CI， 1.89至5.57），执业超过25年（95% CI， 1.81至5.58）。结论：作者确定有必要宣传临床志愿服务对许可证更新的CE信用收益。实践意义：牙医对临床志愿服务的积极看法和志愿意愿可以帮助改善服务不足人群的口腔卫生保健服务。

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Journal of the American Dental Association 医学-牙科与口腔外科

CiteScore

5.30

自引率

10.30%

发文量

221

审稿时长

34 days

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