Özet:

Dentistry, due to its own structure, is a special area of occupation where stress is focused on both the patient and the doctor. All stress-creative elements derived from a dentist or a patient can create an obstacle to a successful treatment and can help determine the qualities of the patients that dentists prefer to work in reducing stress in the dentist-patient relationship. This research was carried out in order to determine the qualitative data of the patients that dentists prefer to study on a local scale. Method and Requirements: The work was carried out during the professional ethical training events held in October and November 2013 on the dentists working in the oral and dental health centers associated with the Adana Provincial Health Directorate. Following the information on the study, the data collection form was distributed to a total of 106 dentists who agreed to participate voluntarily in the research. The data form used was created by adapting the information collected from similar studies in medicine and dentistry literature to our work. The first part of the data collection form contains demographic information. In the second section, where the participants have statements about their opinions about patient preferences, two rankings of questions are included. In the first question, the dentists were asked for 20 possible characteristics of the patient; in the second question, they were asked for 5 attitudes that they could adopt in the face of "threatening circumstances that would occur if the patient was damaged". For each expression, the average score given by all participants is 5 points. The statistical analysis of the data is done using identifying analyses, Ki-Kare tests, Pearson correlation analyses; the statistical importance level is taken as p<0.05 . Of the 106 dentists who make up the sample group, 43 are women, 63 are men, and the average age is 39. The average number of patients consulted by dentists in a day is 34. The highest score among the qualifications they are looking for in patients in which the dentists who participated in our study would prefer to work were the "confidence in the doctor", "connection skills are strong", "can express a clinical problem" while the lowest score given qualifications were classified as "sick and stressful patient", "sick with no material gain" and "sick who comes in addition to the specified workload". The relationship based on the trust that should be established between the doctor and his patient is also an important element in the ethics of dentistry. The fact that dentists prefer more patients that can be effectively communicated is due to the fact that they have to examine a large number of patients within a limited period of time due to the patient’s intensity. Dentists have also given the highest score to the option of "to suffer conscience punishment in case of harm to the patient". This situation can be regarded as a reflection of the profession of medicine as a profession bound with "moral values". In improving the quality of oral dental health services, in addition to identifying the patient’s opinions about the dentists, it is also important to investigate how the dentist perceives the patients. Considering the qualities of patients in our sample group of dentists they prefer to work can play a key role in establishing a successful patient-dentist relationship.

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