Assessment of Oral Health Needs and Barriers to Care in a Gullah Community: Hollywood Smiles
This research is based on quasi-experimental design which examines the oral health outcome of the Gullah’s participants of an African Community in Hollywood, South Carolina. In addition, the Gullah’s participants with substandard oral hygiene where provided oral health care by the dental medicine of South Carolina (Leiter, Hudson, West, Carpenter and Andrews). The research mainly focuses on whether the Gullah’s participant with oral care depends on the perspective of African Americans who have negative views of visiting a dentist will have substandard oral care versus those who have positive views of visiting a dentist will have a standard oral care. The article further mentions that African Americans with a substandard oral hygiene have a self-impose fear of what they assume visiting a dentist will be like, or at the very least they have had a bad experience during their one-time visitation. On the other hand, African American in Gullah community with standard oral hygiene tend to be regularly visit the dentist incline to have genuinely positive views because of the positive treatment they receive during their visitation. …show more content…
The need to assess greater demand for the male participant was solved with selective sampling by “recruiting from the local fire department and town hall” (Leiter, Hudson, West, Carpenter and Andrews). However, the criteria remain to be a restriction on the qualitative research design causing only 27 participants to be eligible and split into 5 groups for the study (Leiter, Hudson, West, Carpenter and Andrews). Therefore, ameliorating these limitations require expanding the size of the population and increasing the criteria for the demographic
This research is based on quasi-experimental design which examines the oral health outcome of the Gullah’s participants of an African Community in Hollywood, South Carolina. In addition, the Gullah’s participants with substandard oral hygiene where provided oral health care by the dental medicine of South Carolina (Leiter, Hudson, West, Carpenter and Andrews). The research mainly focuses on whether the Gullah’s participant with oral care depends on the perspective of African Americans who have negative views of visiting a dentist will have substandard oral care versus those who have positive views of visiting a dentist will have a standard oral care. The article further mentions that African Americans with a substandard oral hygiene have a self-impose fear of what they assume visiting a dentist will be like, or at the very least they have had a bad experience during their one-time visitation. On the other hand, African American in Gullah community with standard oral hygiene tend to be regularly visit the dentist incline to have genuinely positive views because of the positive treatment they receive during their visitation. …show more content…
The need to assess greater demand for the male participant was solved with selective sampling by “recruiting from the local fire department and town hall” (Leiter, Hudson, West, Carpenter and Andrews). However, the criteria remain to be a restriction on the qualitative research design causing only 27 participants to be eligible and split into 5 groups for the study (Leiter, Hudson, West, Carpenter and Andrews). Therefore, ameliorating these limitations require expanding the size of the population and increasing the criteria for the demographic