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ArticleJournal of public health dentistry2025

Community Engagement Studio as a Strategic Tool for Tailoring a Survey on Dental Care Access Among Adolescents.

Rubelisa C G de Oliveira, Hassan Khalid, Grace McKenzie, Laurene Tumiel-Berhalter, Jessica S Kruger

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Article in Journal of public health dentistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Rubelisa C G de OliveiraDepartment of Periodontics and Endodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9385-6569
Hassan KhalidSchool of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Grace McKenzieClinical and Translational Science Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Laurene Tumiel-BerhalterDepartment of Family Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Jessica S KrugerDepartment of Community Health and Health Behavior, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.

Funding

University of Buffalo Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR001412 · NCATS · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · PI Timothy F Murphy · 2022 to 2024
$11.9M
CTSA UM1 State University of New York at BuffaloUM1TR005296 · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · 2025 to 2025
$4.2M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001412NCATS NIH HHS UM1 TR005296Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 80733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThe Community Engagement (CE) Studio aimed to provide feedback on a survey related to dental care access among adolescents. This approach allowed the research team to ensure that the survey integrated both the investigator's perspective and direct input from the community, ensuring the survey was clear, relevant, and accessible to its intended audience.

methodsThe CE Studio is an efficient consultative model for researchers to gain community input on the development, implementation, or dissemination of a research project. The CE Studio was conducted to inform the design of a survey on dental care access, based on the social determinants of health. Parents or caregivers of adolescents with limited access to dental care living in an underresourced area in Buffalo, New York, participated in the session, providing valuable insights and recommendations for the survey's construction.

resultsThe CE Studio participants provided valuable feedback, including suggestions for motivating participation in the survey, changes in demographic questions, and the survey layout. Furthermore, the participants provided new insights into their dental access experiences and barriers to care, leading to additional questions for the survey. Finally, the participants suggested strategies to streamline survey instructions, provided their preferred wording for survey items and recommended how questions should be displayed to future research participants. Overall, 130 edits were made to the original survey, yielding a clearer, more representative, and accessible format.

conclusionCE Studios can positively impact the design of recruitment materials, survey materials, and question structures in community-focused dental health research.

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Community ParticipationDental CareHealth Services AccessibilityAdolescentFemaleHumansMaleNew YorkSurveys and Questionnairescommunity dentistrycommunity healthdental health surveyhealth servicessocial determinants of health

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PMID40462229
PMCPMC12354216

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