Preeyanuch Botklon. The risk of dental service behabior for the grievance among Thai dentists . Master's Degree(General Dentistry). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2004.
The risk of dental service behabior for the grievance among Thai dentists
Abstract:
Dentistry is one of the service professions. Hence, the behavior of the dentist is important for the dental service profession. In this research, the author aims to study the risk factors in dentistry patients’ dissatisfaction with dental service. The frame of the study concentrates on four aspects which are composed of the patients’ unrealized expectations regarding dental service providers’ behavior, insufficient communication on the part of the dentist, substandard service behavior, and unethically commercially oriented behavior in dental service providers. The data on these four aspects were gathered by survey of 366 dentists. From the study, it was found that overall the dentists’ service behavior had risk of grievance at a moderate level. The order of the risk is as follows respectively: the patients unrealized expectations regarding dental service providers’ behavior, unethically commercially oriented behavior in dental service providers, substandard service behavior, and insufficient communication on the part of the dentist. The second part of the research surveyed dentists about their overall attitude regarding their profession. There were four aspects, all of which were found to be at a low level: perceptions of their own professional motives (commercial versus ethical), dentists’ satisfaction with their job and work environment, their perception of patients’ respect for their work, their perception of staff and assistants’ respect of them as professionals and as human beings. Hence steps should be taken to improve these aspects of the dentistry profession. In addition, it was found that dentists’ acknowledgement of three aspects of professional integrity was at a moderate level, namely: the dentistry laws as legislated in 1994, especially part II which concerns professional integrity, general moral principals when serving as a dentist, and patients’ right to information. From analysis, it was found that the relation between dentists’ overall attitude and acknowledgement of integrity in the dental profession and all behaviors of dental service profession surveyed in this research was a significantly positive relation (p-value < 0.001).