The favorable outcomes which were defined as responses of either scale of 4 or 5 were also summarized according to dental settings. Results are presented as percentage by respondents based upon the number of responses for each question.
The questions could be categorized into three groups regarding importance, willingness, and agreement of DM screening in dental settings. These dental settings were divided into the university/hospital-based dental clinics (encompassing two university-based and five hospital-based dental clinics) or the private dental clinics (encompassing two private, and one special (after office hour) clinic of a faculty of dentistry). The anonymous, self-administered questionnaires of five-point response scale questions were distributed to convenience samples of adult patients (⩾25 years) attending one of the dental settings. The purpose of this paper is to determine patients’ attitude toward DM screening in dental clinics.
Association between DM and oral diseases has been reported and dental clinic is indicated to be one of the suitable venues for the screening of DM. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an important health problem throughout the world.
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