C. Kunzel et al., COMPARING PREDICTORS OF WILLINGNESS TO TREAT HIV-YORK-CITY MALE AND FEMALE GENERAL-PRACTICE DENTISTS 50 YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER( PATIENTS FOR NEW), Journal of public health dentistry, 57(3), 1997, pp. 159-162
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Categorie Soggetti
Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Objectives: This article develops and compares gender-specific predict
ive models for willingness to treat HIV-infected patients (PHIV+) for
male and female private general practice dentists (GPDs). Methods: Bas
ed on mail survey data collected in Manhattan and Queens, New York Cit
y (73.3% response rate), hierarchical multiple regression analyses wer
e conducted for male and female dentists 50 years of age or younger (n
=763) and for those in solo practice. Results: The gender-specific pre
dictive models (R(2)s=0.72) do not differ, except for the influence of
practice viability, a moderately strong, statistically significant pr
edictor for men, while the least powerful, statistically nonsignifican
t predictor for women. This distinction remains for solo male and fema
le practitioners. Informal/formal collegial norms are more influential
predictors within the solo female model than within the solo male mod
el. Conclusions: Findings are encouraging for further work in developi
ng predictive models for clinician subpopulations, with an eye toward
developing intervention strategies that reflect key predictive factors
for each group.