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. 2022 Sep 12;10(9):1747. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10091747
Demographics
1 What is your current age?
2 What gender do you identify as?
3 Do you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander?
4 Do you have a health care card/concession card?
5 What is your highest level of education attained?
6 What is your annual income before tax?
7 What is your current employment status?
8 How long have you been attending JCU Dental Clinic?
Perceptions
9 Which of the following locations do you feel you are most likely to be exposed to COVID-19? (please number from 1 to 5, 1 being the highest risk of exposure and 5 being the lowest risk).
10 What would increase your feeling of safety when coming to the dental clinic? Please number from 1 to 5 in order of importance, with 1 being the most important and 5 being the least important.
11 How do you think the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted your dental health.
12 JCU Dentals response to COVID-19 included closure of the dental clinic in March 2020.
13 COVID-19 protocols implemented by JCU Dental included social distancing, mandatory patient handwashing and patient mouthwash performed prior to treatment.
14 Closing down the JCU Dental in the March 2020 COVID-19 outbreak was appropriate.
15 If you have attended a dental clinic in the past 12 months, have the clinic’s COVID-19 protocols impacted fears around safety?
Access
16 Are you attending JCU Dental because you couldn’t attend your regular dentist?
17 COVID-19 pandemic has impacted my ability to travel when attending JCU Dental.
18 Since JCU Dental has re-opened after the COVID-19 pandemic, booking an appointment has been ______.
19 Did you have an appointment cancelled due to the COVID-19 closure?
20 What was the purpose of the cancelled appointment?
21 Did you have to attend another dental clinic because JCU Dental was closed due to COVID-19?
22 Were you notified of JCU Dental Clinic’s closure due to COVID-19?
23 Were you notified when JCU Dental Clinic planned to re-open?
24 Has COVID-19 caused you any financial hardship?
25 If you answered “yes” to the above, has this financial hardship impacted your ability to afford dental treatment?
Attitude
26 When attending JCU Dental, which of the following impacts your likeliness to attend the clinic? Rank in order from 1 to 5, with 1 being the most important reason to not attend and 5 being the least important reason.
27 Has COVID-19 impacted your likeliness to attend the dental clinic
28 Would you have scheduled an appointment if you had a dental emergency after the COVID-19 restrictions were put in place?
29 Are you likely to attend JCU Dental if we had a new outbreak of Cairns?
30 Does the large number of patients attending the JCU Dental Clinic influence your attendance?