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The measurement and development of dentally relevant motives.
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This article is published in Journal of Public Health Dentistry.The article was published on 1975-09-01. It has received 46 citations till now.read more
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The Development of the Index of Complexity, Outcome and Need (ICON)
C. Daniels,Stephen Richmond +1 more
TL;DR: An international panel of 97 orthodontists gave subjective judgements on the need for treatment, treatment complexity, treatment improvement, and acceptability on a diverse sample of 240 initial and 98 treated study models to develop a single index for assessing treatment inputs and outcomes.
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The influence of children's dentofacial appearance on their social attractiveness as judged by peers and lay adults
TL;DR: The hypothesis that children with a normal dental appearance would be judged to be better looking, more desirable as friends, more intelligent, and less likely to behave aggressively was upheld.
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Health as a value: methodological and theoretical considerations
TL;DR: A short 4-item Likert scale designed to measure the value placed on health is presented and both health locus of control beliefs and beliefs in the efficacy of certain preventive health behaviors correlate more highly with the performance of those same behaviors 5 to 9 months later among respondents who place a high value of health relative to those who do not value health.
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The validity and reliability of ratings of dental and facial attractiveness for epidemiologic use.
David Howells,William C. Shaw +1 more
TL;DR: The method proved to be convenient and rapid in operation and its validity was upheld, good reliability was established and there is scope for further improvement by increasing the size of the panel.
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Dental and social effects of malocclusion and effectivenessof orthodontic treatment: a review.
TL;DR: The relationship between malocclusion and the health of the masticatory apparatus is reviewed and there is no evidence that children with visible irregulaities will in general be emotionally handicapped and the need for further research is underlined.
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Some correlates of children's health beliefs and potential health behavior.
TL;DR: The salience of health, perceptions of vulnerability to health problems, and perceptions of internal control over environmental events form a set of related elements whose implications for potential health behavior are the focus of this study.
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The organizing role of motivation in health beliefs and intentions.
TL;DR: Children's beliefs about vulnerability to health problems and the benefits of taking some health action together with their reports of traumatic dental encounters were a significantly better set of predictors of intention to make a dental visit among children for whom health was relatively important.
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The Health Ideation Pictures (HIP): reliability and internal consistency.
TL;DR: A series of 11 pictures was developed to provide a method of measuring health ideation and adaptive health behavior and the pictures were found to provide internally consistent measures within each dimension.