Factors of choice influencing dental treatment decisions (overall) · (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for children or…
A wide range of factors (n=101 in three categories) influence patients' dental treatment decisions; the review identified and synthesized them qualitatively without grading certainty (ungraded).
1 finding from 1 review
n=101 factors of choice identified across 233 articles, grouped into three categories: (I) Dentist & dental institution (n=44 factors), (II) Patient (n=37), (III) Treatment (n=20); no effect sizes were pooled…
233 studies
GRADE not reported
Willingness to pay for dental care · (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for children or…
Across 37 willingness-to-pay studies, patients' WTP varied with treatment type and sociodemographic factors, being higher for aesthetic treatments (ungraded).
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N=37 articles analyzed patients' willingness-to-pay (3 RCTs, 6 non-RCTs, 26 cross-sectional, 2 mixed-methods); most examined WTP for a specific treatment (N=29). WTP is higher for aesthetic than functional treatments…
37 studies
GRADE not reported
Dental fear (fear of treatment) as a factor of choice · (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for children or…
Dental fear was the second most frequently reported factor (N=64 articles), varying by country (ungraded).
1 finding from 1 review
'Fear' (of treatment; synonyms e.g., 'fear of needles') identified in N=64 articles (code frequency n=73), the second most frequent factor; frequently reported in India (42%), Saudi Arabia (39%) and Brazil (36%), but…
64 studies
GRADE not reported
Aesthetics as a factor of choice · (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for children or…
Aesthetics was the third most frequently reported factor (N=53 articles), most prominent in Brazil and Saudi Arabia (ungraded).
1 finding from 1 review
Fear of SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) as a barrier to dental treatment · (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for children or…
One study found that fear of SARS-CoV-2 infection led US patients to postpone and cancel dental treatments, with dental care most affected (38.1% delays; ungraded).
1 finding from 1 review
Out-of-pocket payment / cost as a factor of choice · (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for children or…
Out-of-pocket payment (cost) was the most frequently reported factor influencing patients' dental treatment decisions (N=136 articles; ungraded).
1 finding from 1 review
'Out-of-pocket payment' (and synonyms, e.g., 'cost') was the most frequently identified factor: mentioned in N=136 articles with the highest code frequency (n=151); most prevalent factor in 7 of the 8 countries with…
136 studies
GRADE not reported
Pain as a factor of choice · (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for children or…
Pain was the fourth most frequently reported factor (N=49 articles), reported across most countries (ungraded).
1 finding from 1 review
'Pain' (synonyms e.g., 'pain intensity') identified in N=49 articles (code frequency n=61); frequent in Brazil (43%), Canada (25%) and the USA (23%), not identified in Germany (0); reported across about 34 countries…
49 studies
GRADE not reported