ArticleBMC psychology2025
Oral health and oral health needs among patients with serious mental illness: reflections and experiences of psychiatric staff in Sweden.
Article in BMC psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Neural Orchestration of Mandibular Development.International dental journal · 2026Review
- Barriers to oral health management in inpatients with late-life depression: a qualitative study.BMC oral health · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundDue to organizational structures, there is a gap between psychiatric and dental care services that limits collaboration and knowledge sharing, and this can have a negative impact on patients' oral health or general health and vice versa. To facilitate the integration between dentistry and psychiatry, more insight and knowledge is needed on psychiatric staffs' work with patients' oral health. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the experiences of psychiatric staff regarding patients' oral health and meeting their oral health needs.
methodsUsing a semi-structured guide, staff (n = 13) in Swedish psychiatric and forensic settings and in municipal housing support services were interviewed about their experiences with patient oral health. The interviews took place between April 2022 and June 2023. The data were analysed with inductive qualitative content analysis.
resultsThis study identified challenges such as organizational issues, complex administrations, and a lack of tools for integrating oral health into psychiatric care. The patients perceived to face daily health-related challenges, and the informants identified opportunities to include oral health into tools for health promotion and the facilitation of healthy lifestyle changes.
conclusionPsychiatric staff possess central knowledge and insight into the life situations of patients with severe mental illness, and psychiatric staff consider dental staff to be key partners. Collaboration between psychiatric and dental staff is essential for developing strategies to integrate oral health perspectives into current screening and psychopedagogical models and practices.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.