Scottish Government

Scottish Prisons' Dental Health Survey 2002

Colwyn M Jones BDS FDS DDPH MSc
Consultant in Dental Public Health
Highland NHS Board

Mary McCann BDS MPH
Deputy Chief Dental Officer
Scottish Executive Health Department

Zoann Nugent PHD
Chief Statistician
Dental Health Services Research Unit
University of Dunde

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Contents

Summary
Recommendations
1 Introduction
2 Timetable
3 Project Management Arrangements
4 Survey Components
5 Confidentiality
6 Ethical Issues
7 Sampling
8 Questionnaire
9 The Dental Examination
10 Training & Organisation of the Dental Team
11 Results
12 The Influence of Length of Time in Prison
13 Comparisons to 1998 UK Adult Dental Health Survey
14 Oral Health Impact Profile in a Prison Population
15 Survey Conduct
16 Conclusions

Acknowledgements
Appendix 1 Information for participants
Appendix 2 Survey consent form
Appendix 3 Reporting serious pathology consent form
Appendix 4 Clinical Criteria for dental examination
Appendix 5 Survey questionnaire
Appendix 6 Prison Survey Steering Group and survey timetable
Appendix 7 The reweighting of the Scottish population from the 1998 UKADHS
Appendix 8 The Oral Health Impact Profile comparative results

Address for correspondence;

Colwyn M Jones BDS FDS DDPH MSc MFPH
Consultant in Dental Public Health
Highland NHS Board
Beechwood Park
Inverness IV2 3HG

Tel: 01463 704817
Fax: 01463 717666
e-mail:colwyn.jones@hhb.scot.nhs.uk

*SHBDEP - The Scottish Health Boards' Dental Epidemiology Programme, is a joint venture between all fifteen Health Boards and the Dental Health Services Research Unit at the University of Dundee, carries out annual standardised dental surveys, with trained and calibrated dental examiners, based on core guidelines produced by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry.