Older Patients’ Views of Oral Health Care and Factors which Facilitate or Obstruct Regular Access to Dental Care-Services: A Qualitative Systematic Review

摘要

Objectives: Describe independently living older peoples’ views of oral-health, and their experiences of accessing dental care-services within community settings. Methods: Dentistry and Oral-Sciences Source, CINAHL, MEDLINE and AMED databases were searched to 15 January 2020. Assessment of methodological quality was undertaken using the JBI Critical Appraisal Checklist. Extracted data underwent meta-aggregative synthesis findings were assigned levels of credibility and categorised according to similarity. These categories were subsequently synthesised into themes. Results: Five studies were identified and included within analysis. Forty-six findings were aggregated into 18 descriptive categories, which were synthesised into five themes. These themes were Aggregated oral health experience