Frank J Kohout
Biographic Data
| ID | 257310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank J Kohout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohout |
| SIGNATURE | KOHOUT F J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Predictors of Hepatitis B Vaccine Acceptance in Health Care Workers
This article examines the relative importance of occupational, epidemiologic, and attitudinal factors in hepatitis B vaccine acceptance. A stratified random sample of 1,018 health care workers at risk for occupational blood exposure at our university hospital were contacted in 1992 and 919 (90%) participated. Potential reasons for vaccine acceptance or refusal were evaluated with factor analysis. Logistic regression models were calibrated on a st…
Sensory Focus as Therapeutic Treatments for Acute Pain
This study examined the hypothesis that instructing patients to focus on their sensations (sensory focus) during root canal therapy reduces painful response. Before dental treatment, patients were randomly assigned to one of four audiotaped conditions: sensory focus with and without procedural information, procedural information, or no-intervention. Patients were categorized as to how much control they desired and felt. The "high desire for contr…
Two Shorter Forms of the CES-D Depression Symptoms Index
Brief measurement devices can alleviate respondent burden and lower refusal rates in surveys. This article reports on a field test of two shorter forms of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) symptoms index in a multisite survey of persons 65 and older. Factor analyses demonstrate that the briefer forms tap the same symptoms dimensions as does the original CES-D, and reliability statistics indicate that they sacrifice little …
Differences in Need for Orthodontic Treatment Between Native Americans and the General Population Based on DAI Scores
Clinical impressions by Indian Health Service (IHS) dentists of a greater frequency of severe dental malrelations among Native Americans than in the general US population have never been objectively confirmed. This study uses the DAI as the standard to determine whether there is a greater prevalence of severe malocclusions among Native Americans. Four hundred eighty-five Native American students in grades 7-12 from two remote sites--Pine Ridge, S…
Utility of the Dental Aesthetic Index in Industrialized and Developing Countries
To be truly useful, an index must be applicable universally without modification. The data presented in this article support the use of the standard DAI without modification to assess need for orthodontic treatment in both developing and industrialized countries. When students from Thailand, Australia, the German Democratic Republic, and Native Americans residing on Indian reservations rated the same 25 occlusal stimuli (photographs of dental con…
Incidence of tooth loss among elderly Iowans
This study investigated the 18-month incidence of tooth loss in a random sample of 451 dentate noninstitutionalized Iowans aged 65 and older residing in two rural counties. They had a mean of 19.0 teeth at baseline and lost an average of 0.4 teeth during the subsequent 18 months. Twenty-one per cent of the population lost at least one tooth. Four people had all their teeth extracted. Of the teeth present at baseline, 1.9 per cent subsequently wer…
Edentulism and oral health problems among elderly rural Iowans
A household health interview survey of 3,673 noninstitutionalized people aged 65 and over in two rural Iowa counties included questions about loss of teeth, use of dentures, and presence of oral health problems. Edentulism rates were 10-15 per cent lower than those found a decade earlier in national health surveys. A log-linear analysis found that the best demographic predictors of edentulism were education, age, and marital status. Spouses tende…
Factors Associated with the Aging Leisure Repertoire
This study describes factors related to the leisure repertoires of a large population of rural elderly. Age, self-perceived health, leisure attitude, life satisfaction and sex were the most influential factors with regard to the size of subjects' leisure repertoires. Though associations between education, exercise attitude and marital status and leisure repertoire were statistically significant, none accounted for even one percent of the variabil…
Individual and Group Consumer Information Acquisition in Brand Choice Situations
Drawing on small groups research, family sociology, and consumer information processing research, behavioral process methodology is used to compare information acquisition depth and decision time across individuals, ad hoc cross-sex dyads, and married couples. Ad hoc dyads and nominal groups (statistically paired individuals) acquired more information than did married couples; ad hoc dyads acquired more information than did individuals. The impli…
Capitation Payment for Medicaid Pharmacy Services
Although pharmacy organizations have been instrumental in the movement to repeal antisubstitution laws, there is evidence that under the current fee-for-service system pharmacists have not exercised their newly obtained prerogatives freely. A previous study has demonstrated that paying pharmacists on a capitation basis for their Medicaid patients effects a highly significant increase in the rate of generic substitution. The present study was cond…
The First Course in Sociology
in the natural sciences: the vocational model, the inquiry model, and the humanistic model. The models are labeled negative andpositive based on their possible contributions to the design of sociology courses. The paper argues that the first course in sociology is patterned largely after a negative natural science model, the vocational model, while the two models which might be more appropriate for sociology, the inquiry and the humanistic models…
Social Psychology and Everyday Life
Subject-Coded Versus Researcher-Coded TST Protocols
Roose, Kenneth D. 1969 Observations on interdisciplinary work in the social sciences. Pp. 323-327 in Muzafer Sherif and Carolyn M. Sherif (eds.), Interdisciplinary Relationships in the Sciences. Chicago: Aldine. Schnore, L. F. 1958 Social morphology and human ecology. American Journal of Sociology 63 (May): 620-634. Starr, C. 1969 Social benefit versus technological risk. Science 165 (September 19):1232-1238. U.S. Department of Health, Education …
Two Shorter Forms of the CES-D Depression Symptoms Index
Brief measurement devices can alleviate respondent burden and lower refusal rates in surveys. This article reports on a field test of two shorter forms of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) symptoms index in a multisite survey of persons 65 and older. Factor analyses demonstrate that the briefer forms tap the same symptoms dimensions as does the original CES-D, and reliability statistics indicate that they sacrifice little …
Edentulism and oral health problems among elderly rural Iowans
A household health interview survey of 3,673 noninstitutionalized people aged 65 and over in two rural Iowa counties included questions about loss of teeth, use of dentures, and presence of oral health problems. Edentulism rates were 10-15 per cent lower than those found a decade earlier in national health surveys. A log-linear analysis found that the best demographic predictors of edentulism were education, age, and marital status. Spouses tende…
Factors Associated with the Aging Leisure Repertoire
This study describes factors related to the leisure repertoires of a large population of rural elderly. Age, self-perceived health, leisure attitude, life satisfaction and sex were the most influential factors with regard to the size of subjects' leisure repertoires. Though associations between education, exercise attitude and marital status and leisure repertoire were statistically significant, none accounted for even one percent of the variabil…
Subject-Coded Versus Researcher-Coded TST Protocols
Roose, Kenneth D. 1969 Observations on interdisciplinary work in the social sciences. Pp. 323-327 in Muzafer Sherif and Carolyn M. Sherif (eds.), Interdisciplinary Relationships in the Sciences. Chicago: Aldine. Schnore, L. F. 1958 Social morphology and human ecology. American Journal of Sociology 63 (May): 620-634. Starr, C. 1969 Social benefit versus technological risk. Science 165 (September 19):1232-1238. U.S. Department of Health, Education …
Incidence of tooth loss among elderly Iowans
This study investigated the 18-month incidence of tooth loss in a random sample of 451 dentate noninstitutionalized Iowans aged 65 and older residing in two rural counties. They had a mean of 19.0 teeth at baseline and lost an average of 0.4 teeth during the subsequent 18 months. Twenty-one per cent of the population lost at least one tooth. Four people had all their teeth extracted. Of the teeth present at baseline, 1.9 per cent subsequently wer…
Subject-Coded Versus Researcher-Coded TST Protocols
Roose, Kenneth D. 1969 Observations on interdisciplinary work in the social sciences. Pp. 323-327 in Muzafer Sherif and Carolyn M. Sherif (eds.), Interdisciplinary Relationships in the Sciences. Chicago: Aldine. Schnore, L. F. 1958 Social morphology and human ecology. American Journal of Sociology 63 (May): 620-634. Starr, C. 1969 Social benefit versus technological risk. Science 165 (September 19):1232-1238. U.S. Department of Health, Education …
Social Psychology and Everyday Life
The First Course in Sociology
in the natural sciences: the vocational model, the inquiry model, and the humanistic model. The models are labeled negative andpositive based on their possible contributions to the design of sociology courses. The paper argues that the first course in sociology is patterned largely after a negative natural science model, the vocational model, while the two models which might be more appropriate for sociology, the inquiry and the humanistic models…
Capitation Payment for Medicaid Pharmacy Services
Although pharmacy organizations have been instrumental in the movement to repeal antisubstitution laws, there is evidence that under the current fee-for-service system pharmacists have not exercised their newly obtained prerogatives freely. A previous study has demonstrated that paying pharmacists on a capitation basis for their Medicaid patients effects a highly significant increase in the rate of generic substitution. The present study was cond…
Individual and Group Consumer Information Acquisition in Brand Choice Situations
Drawing on small groups research, family sociology, and consumer information processing research, behavioral process methodology is used to compare information acquisition depth and decision time across individuals, ad hoc cross-sex dyads, and married couples. Ad hoc dyads and nominal groups (statistically paired individuals) acquired more information than did married couples; ad hoc dyads acquired more information than did individuals. The impli…
Factors Associated with the Aging Leisure Repertoire
This study describes factors related to the leisure repertoires of a large population of rural elderly. Age, self-perceived health, leisure attitude, life satisfaction and sex were the most influential factors with regard to the size of subjects' leisure repertoires. Though associations between education, exercise attitude and marital status and leisure repertoire were statistically significant, none accounted for even one percent of the variabil…
Edentulism and oral health problems among elderly rural Iowans
A household health interview survey of 3,673 noninstitutionalized people aged 65 and over in two rural Iowa counties included questions about loss of teeth, use of dentures, and presence of oral health problems. Edentulism rates were 10-15 per cent lower than those found a decade earlier in national health surveys. A log-linear analysis found that the best demographic predictors of edentulism were education, age, and marital status. Spouses tende…
Incidence of tooth loss among elderly Iowans
This study investigated the 18-month incidence of tooth loss in a random sample of 451 dentate noninstitutionalized Iowans aged 65 and older residing in two rural counties. They had a mean of 19.0 teeth at baseline and lost an average of 0.4 teeth during the subsequent 18 months. Twenty-one per cent of the population lost at least one tooth. Four people had all their teeth extracted. Of the teeth present at baseline, 1.9 per cent subsequently wer…
Utility of the Dental Aesthetic Index in Industrialized and Developing Countries
To be truly useful, an index must be applicable universally without modification. The data presented in this article support the use of the standard DAI without modification to assess need for orthodontic treatment in both developing and industrialized countries. When students from Thailand, Australia, the German Democratic Republic, and Native Americans residing on Indian reservations rated the same 25 occlusal stimuli (photographs of dental con…
Differences in Need for Orthodontic Treatment Between Native Americans and the General Population Based on DAI Scores
Clinical impressions by Indian Health Service (IHS) dentists of a greater frequency of severe dental malrelations among Native Americans than in the general US population have never been objectively confirmed. This study uses the DAI as the standard to determine whether there is a greater prevalence of severe malocclusions among Native Americans. Four hundred eighty-five Native American students in grades 7-12 from two remote sites--Pine Ridge, S…
Two Shorter Forms of the CES-D Depression Symptoms Index
Brief measurement devices can alleviate respondent burden and lower refusal rates in surveys. This article reports on a field test of two shorter forms of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) symptoms index in a multisite survey of persons 65 and older. Factor analyses demonstrate that the briefer forms tap the same symptoms dimensions as does the original CES-D, and reliability statistics indicate that they sacrifice little …
Sensory Focus as Therapeutic Treatments for Acute Pain
This study examined the hypothesis that instructing patients to focus on their sensations (sensory focus) during root canal therapy reduces painful response. Before dental treatment, patients were randomly assigned to one of four audiotaped conditions: sensory focus with and without procedural information, procedural information, or no-intervention. Patients were categorized as to how much control they desired and felt. The "high desire for contr…
Predictors of Hepatitis B Vaccine Acceptance in Health Care Workers
This article examines the relative importance of occupational, epidemiologic, and attitudinal factors in hepatitis B vaccine acceptance. A stratified random sample of 1,018 health care workers at risk for occupational blood exposure at our university hospital were contacted in 1992 and 919 (90%) participated. Potential reasons for vaccine acceptance or refusal were evaluated with factor analysis. Logistic regression models were calibrated on a st…
Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Dental Health and Care Utilization (3 works) · Dentistry (3 works)