Managerial Factors Affecting Attitude of Dentists towards Working in Dental Mobile Clinics in the Primary Care Unit of Community Hospitals in Central Thailand

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This cross-sectional predictive research aimed to identify managerial factors affecting dentists’attitude towards working in dental mobile clinics in the primary care unit of community hospitals in central Thailand. This research used a stratified sampling technique. The required sample of this research was 216 subjects. This research used a questionnaire as the instrument for collecting data. The reliability was 0.76 - 0.93. Data analysis was done by using SPSS for windows by presenting frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, chi-square, Pearson correlation coefficients and the stepwise multiple regression analysis.The results revealed that attitude of dentists towards dental mobile clinic were fairly positive. Aspects of concern were: hospital’s policy for dental mobile clinic (A), allocation budget (B), structure of dental mobile clinic (C), learning of technology (D), proportion of work load in dental mobile clinic per month (E) and decision making (F). All of these could significantly predict attitude towards working in dental mobile clinic in primary care unit (r = 30.5-34.8%).  (A), (B), and (F) can predict attitude input factor with r = 30.5%. (A), (B), (C), (D), and (F) can predict attitude process factor with r = 32.0%. (A), (B), (C), and (E)  can predict attitude result factor with r = 32.1%, and (A), (B), (C), can predict attitude whole factor with r = 34.8% .Therefore, motivating for dentists’ positive attitude towards working in dental mobile clinic in primary care unit should consider hospital’s policy for dental mobile clinics , allocation budget, structure of dental mobile clinic, proportion of work load in dental mobile clinic per month, decision making, and learning of technology.