Dental Care for Children, Health Services Accessibility, Health Services Utilization, Patient Satisfaction, Pediatric Dentistry
Conditions
Keywords
Pediatric dental satisfaction, Dental access barriers Egypt, Parental dental experience, Unmet pediatric dental needs, Public dental hospital evaluation
Brief summary
This study aims to evaluate the barriers and unmet needs in utilizing dental services for children and measure parental satisfaction with the services provided at the Pediatric Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University.
Detailed description
This observational study evaluates barriers to dental service utilization, unmet treatment needs, and parental satisfaction within the Pediatric Dentistry Department at Cairo University's Faculty of Dentistry. All participants will complete a validated, interviewer-administered Arabic questionnaire assessing Sociodemographic factors (income, education, insurance), access barriers (financial, geographic, systemic, psychosocial via nineteen-item Likert scale), unmet dental needs (DMFT index, untreated conditions from electronic health records), parental satisfaction (nine-item scale evaluating service quality, staff attitudes, waiting times, and facilities). The study aims to generate evidence for optimizing pediatric dental care delivery in Egypt's largest academic dental center.
Interventions
OTHERQuestioner interview
The 2 questionnaires were translated from English to standard Arabic comprised of three sections, general information, including data and sociodemographic factors such as region of residence, parental education level, child age, child sex, and child order between siblings, Barriers to oral health care needs, including frequency and reasons for dental visits, any previous dental treatment, barriers to treatment such as fear of dentist, distance from the dental clinic, expense of an appointment due to health ban, responsibilities towards family members, not being familiar with appointment booking, and no available appointments, and Comprising of interviewer-administered questionnaires with a five-point Likert scale (strongly agree, agree, uncertain, disagree, strongly disagree) to assess the level of patients' satisfaction with the dental services provided.
Sponsors
Cairo University
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
2 Years to 12 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Parents of children aged 2 to 12 years old
Exclusion criteria
* Parents refuse to sign the informed consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Parents' satisfaction | 6 months | Evaluation of parents' satisfaction with the service provided in the dental clinic for their children by The structured and validated questionnaire consists of 1. quantitative closed questions. The measurement unit includes both a nominal scale (%) and a quantitative scale (minutes). 2. Qualitative open-ended questions. The measurement unit incorporates a nominal scale (%). |
Countries
Egypt
Outcome results
None listed