title: [Measurement of dentists' treatment conceptions].
abstract: It was hypothesized that dentists have different conceptions of treatment. A distinction was made between a relational dimension with extremes a communicative and a directive conception and a dental dimension with extremes a restorative and a preventive conception. For the measurement of the conceptions a questionnaire of fourty-three items was constructed. The questionnaire was administered to 149 dentists in The Netherlands. Using factor analysis eleven items were selected for the relational dimension and also eleven items for the dental dimension. Cronbach's coefficient alpha is .75 for the relational dimension and .78 for the dental dimension; the correlation of the two dimensions is .21. Therefore, the conceptions can be measured using the questionnaire. The conception of the dentists is in general communicative; the variation between the restorative and preventive conceptions is rather large.
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: de Vries
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Mellenbergh
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: den Dekker
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003729:Dental Care; D003815:Dentists / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Meting van de behandelconcepties van tandartsen.