Are dental care providers in Saudi Arabia organized to treat patients with unique wishes?

Arwa Alumran, Luloah Almulhim, Baruah Almolhim, Shouq Bakodah, Hessa Aldossary, Saja A Alrayes
Health Information Management and Technology Department, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia
Background: Equity in services accessibility is one of the primary additives of precise excellent healthcare. However, patients with unique wishes have restrained get right of entry to dental care offerings, which might be because of the shortage of education and revel in of the dental care carriers that might impact on their preparedness and willingness in terms of being concerned for the patients with special desires.
Objectives: The predominant objective of this observe is to decide the elements influencing the preparedness and willingness of dental care providers at distinctive Saudi Arabian universities to provide treatment to patients with special needs.
Methods: A Cross-sectional examine layout concentrated on all dental care carriers including interns, citizens, experts, experts, dental nurses and students from universities around Saudi Arabia. Two scales were tailored to determine the dental care providers’ perceived preparedness and willingness to deal with patients with unique wishes.
Results: A general of 243 contributors from dental faculties around Saudi universities had been protected within the study. Males appeared to be greater prepared and willing to treat patients with special desires as compared to girls. Dental care carriers from King Saud University perceived extra preparedness in comparison to different universities within the study. While graduates from King Abdulaziz University showcase more preparedness to deal with sufferers with special needs as compared to graduates from different universities within the take a look at. Also, dental care vendors who’ve handled an affected person with unique desires perceived greater preparedness to treat them again.
Conclusion: When a dental care provider have dealt with an affected person with unique needs or just dealt with them in a day by day existence, this revel in procured excessive preparedness score, but, did now not impact on their willingness rating inside the treatment of these people. Good dental training applications are essential to provide equity of dental care services to all parts of the network equally.
Keywords: autism spectrum sickness, dental care, oral health, dental schooling, exceptional of healthcare, social determinants of health