Association of service use with subjective oral health indicators in a freedom of choice pilot.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A freedom of choice pilot provided access to private oral health care services without queuing and with fixed public service-fees for participants in Tampere region, Finland in 2018-2019. The aim of this study was to investigate how use of oral health care services differed by demographics, socioeconomic status, dental fear, and self-reported oral health in this pilot.

Material and methods

SMS-messages including a link to online questionnaire were sent to participants who had booked an appointment, and to those who had not booked an appointment despite registering to pilot. We categorized participants to (1) those who had booked their first appointment before receiving SMS (visitors), (2) those who booked an appointment after receiving the SMS-message (late-visito

SUBMITTER: Raittio E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9932228 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature