Barriers to and Facilitators of Oral Health Among Persons Living With Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study
Abstract
Objective:
Persons with mental illness have poorer oral health and are less likely to receive oral health care than those in the general population. A comprehensive understanding of barriers to and facilitators of accessing oral health care from a multidisciplinary perspective is lacking. The authors of this qualitative study sought to explore barriers and facilitators in addressing the oral health needs of individuals with mental illness from the perspectives of patients, psychiatrists, and dentists.
Methods:
A thematic content analysis approach was used to triangulate the perspectives of the three groups. Face-to-face semistructured interviews were conducted in 2018–2019 with patients with mental illness (N=20), psychiatrists (N=20), and dentists (N=25) at an academic medical campus in rural eastern North Carolina. Participants were recruited until thematic saturation for each group was reached.
Results:
Reported barriers to oral health care were categorized under emerging themes: access to dental care, fear of dental care, characteristics of mental illness, lack of oral health screening by psychiatrists, lack of education and training, stigma of mental illness, and lack of communication. Facilitators of oral health care were linked to the reported need for education and training, financial support, dentists’ chairside manner, community support, and interprofessional communication.
Conclusions:
The findings highlight health system gaps between oral health and mental health. The barriers and facilitators identified can help inform the development of interventions to improve oral health of patients with mental illness. Interventions should include interdisciplinary education and training, improved communication, and strategies to reduce financial barriers and anxiety in dental practice.
HIGHLIGHTS
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Qualitative interviews with patients with mental illness, psychiatrists, and dentists were conducted to study the challenges that the patients face in accessing dental care.
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All participants identified cost and fear of dental care services as patients’ top two barriers to receiving care.
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Supportive public policies that improve access to dental services and integration of mental health with oral health may help improve the oral health of patients with mental illness.
Populations with mental illness remain at a considerable disadvantage in oral health outcomes across the world (1). Emerging data correlate poor oral health with systemic medical comorbid conditions and associated increased mortality rates (2). Oral diseases have been associated with numerous inflammatory and infectious diseases and may directly lead to bacterial colonization, which may cause bacteremia and chronic inflammation of multiple organ systems (3). Poor oral health status among patients with mental illness is an important cause of the 25-year lower life expectancy for people with mental illness, compared with the general population (4–6).
Evidence suggests a bidirectional relationship between oral health and mental health (7, 8). Poor oral health negatively affects social functioning because of its effect on smiling, eating, speaking, psychological well-being, self-esteem, self-confidence, and quality of life (9, 10). Additionally, persons with mental illness are more likely than those in the general population to experience adverse oral health and to require more dental interventions (8). A systematic review found that individuals with serious mental illness are 2.8 times more likely than those in the general public to lose teeth and to have more decayed, missing, and filled teeth (1). Increased dental decay and tooth loss are common among persons with anxiety and depressive disorders, and those with eating disorders often have significantly more dental erosion and decay than those without eating disorders (8, 11).
Individuals with mental illness experience several risk factors that increase the prevalence of oral health problems, including adverse effects of prescribed psychotropic medications; comorbid substance use, including tobacco use; and poor diet (12, 13). Previous studies have reported barriers to oral health care, such as the cost of care, lack of insurance, transportation barriers, lack of time to seek dental services, and dental anxiety (14–16). Additional barriers, including the oral health team’s attitudes toward and knowledge of mental illness and the severity of mental illness, also impede access to care among persons with mental illness (13, 17). Furthermore, lack of communication between psychiatrists and dentists, lack of knowledge of psychiatrists regarding oral health, and the reluctance of dentists to provide care to patients with mental illness are additional barriers (18, 19). Facilitators of good oral health include interprofessional education, financial support and resources, and supportive policies, such as reimbursement of trained nondental health care providers to provide dental screenings, patient education, and fluoride varnish applications (20).
A disconnect exists between mental health services and oral health services (7). In the United States, data about the oral health status of people with mental illness are lacking (1). Improving access to dental care is a crucial step to address the oral health needs of people with mental illness. Critical to achieving that goal is understanding the challenges that mental health professionals and dental professionals face in providing dental care to patients with mental illness. Equally important are the views of patients on dental care access. Given the limited research examining this issue, a deeper understanding of barriers and facilitators affecting the oral health of patients with mental illness is needed. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the views of patients, psychiatrists, and dentists regarding these barriers and facilitators in addressing the oral health needs of persons with mental illness.
Methods
Design and Sample
In this qualitative study, we explored the barriers to and facilitators of oral health care of patients with mental illness (hereafter called patients). The sample was drawn from psychiatrists and dental faculty from East Carolina University (ECU) School of Dental Medicine and from patients in the ECU outpatient psychiatric clinic. The clinic is located in Greenville, North Carolina, which is in rural eastern North Carolina and home to a regional medical center and university. Data were generated through face-to-face semistructured interviews and analyzed by our multidisciplinary team of six researchers, with expertise in psychiatry (V.A.), medicine (J.B.), dentistry (W.G.W., J.P.N.), public health (J.G.L.L.), and social work (P.E.A.). Three researchers were clinicians—a dentist (W.G.W.), a psychiatrist (V.A.), and a physician (J.B.).
Patients were eligible if they were age ≥19 years and received psychiatric services at the ECU psychiatric outpatient clinic. Mental health providers were psychiatrists or psychiatric residents from the clinic. Dentists were chosen to represent different fields of primary and specialized dentistry (general dentistry, oral surgery, endodontics, and periodontics). Pediatric dentists and orthodontists were excluded.
We invited clinicians via e-mail, telephone, or personal contact to participate. Patients were recruited in the waiting rooms of the outpatient clinic on weekdays and through study fliers posted at recruitment sites that provided information to call a dedicated study phone number. Participants were recruited until thematic saturation for each participant group was reached. Thematic saturation was defined as the point at which additional interviews no longer provided new information (21) and was determined by consensus among the members in our research team. This process yielded 20 patients, 20 psychiatrists, and 25 dentists who agreed to participate.
Data Collection
The topic list for the interviews was designed with topics from previous studies in oral and mental health (22, 23). Patients were asked to describe their experiences, barriers, and facilitators in accessing dental care. Psychiatrists were asked whether they received training in oral health, whether they screen their patients for oral health problems, and what advice they give when their patients report oral health problems. Dentists were asked about their confidence in providing treatment to patients with mental illness and the measures they take for treating these patients. Interview guides are available from the University of North Carolina Dataverse (https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/6PNJPX).
Each interview was typically 15 minutes long. Two authors (J.P.N., J.B.) with training in qualitative interviewing piloted the interview guide and conducted all interviews, which took place from May 2018 to January 2019. All interviews were conducted face to face, with only the interviewer and the participant present. Patient and psychiatrist interviews were held in a conference room at the outpatient psychiatric center. Interviews of dentists were conducted in their private offices at the School of Dental Medicine. No repeat interviews were carried out. The interviews were audiotaped and professionally transcribed verbatim. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study was approved by the ECU and Medical Center Institutional Review Board (17–001654).
Analysis
Data were analyzed in March and April 2019. Our analysis approach was based on grounded theory (24), which was appropriate because the goal of this research was to create a framework for addressing the oral health needs of patients. The interview data were analyzed via the constant comparison method (25), which includes three levels of coding: open, axial, and selective. The entire research team completed this process under the leadership of the qualitative methodologist (P.E.A.). In the open coding, the data were first sorted into initial themes by the lead analyst (P.E.A.), the lead author (W.G.W.), and another team member (J.P.N.). The three authors worked independently to provide one level of triangulation of the data (26) and then discussed their findings and presented all the potential codes.
Axial coding further refined all of the initial codes and included looking for similarity and overlap so that subcodes were collapsed into larger codes. We noted and also considered when codes had responses from each of the participant groups. The initial codes were reviewed by the lead analyst (P.E.A.) and lead author (W.G.W.) for further grouping into fewer codes. We conducted axial coding iteratively in conjunction with our ongoing discussion, which refined the emerging themes and created a consensus. In the final analysis stage, we performed selective coding in which we focused on the themes that best represented the data and responded to the research questions. Typically, these themes were also found to have been discussed by at least two or all three participant groups. To ensure rigor of the analysis and overall methods, we engaged in practices that are considered the hallmarks of qualitative methods to establish credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability (27). To achieve this high quality, the research protocol included triangulation of the team during data analysis, peer debriefing (discussion with colleagues), an audit trail, field notes, and reflexivity by the research team.
Results
A description of the participants’ characteristics is presented in Table 1. We noted several areas of overlap among the patients, psychiatrists, and dentists regarding barriers to and facilitators of patients’ oral health (Table 2). Patients’ perceived barriers included limited access to dental care, fear of dental care, characteristics of mental illness, lack of oral screening by psychiatrists, patients’ and providers’ lack of education, lack of communication, and the stigma of mental illness. Facilitators to seeking oral health services included resources to overcome socioeconomic barriers, dentists’ chairside manners, oral screening by psychiatrists, increased education of patients and providers, increased communication, and community support for mental illness. (Quotes taken from the interviews with the three groups and describing the barriers and facilitators are presented in tables included in an online online supplement to this article.)
| Characteristic | N | % |
|---|---|---|
| Patients | 20 | 100 |
| Age (M±SD)a | 40.7±13.6 | |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 8 | 40 |
| Female | 12 | 60 |
| Race-ethnicity | ||
| Non-Hispanic African American or Black | 8 | 40 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 1 | 5 |
| Non-Hispanic white or Caucasian | 9 | 45 |
| Other (≥2 races) | 2 | 10 |
| Annual household income | ||
| <$10,000 | 7 | 35 |
| $10,000–$19,999 | 4 | 20 |
| $20,000–$29,999 | 3 | 15 |
| $30,000–$39,999 | 2 | 10 |
| ≥$40,000 | 3 | 15 |
| Missing | 1 | 5 |
| Has dental insurance | 11 | 55 |
| Psychiatric diagnosis (self-reported) | ||
| Serious mental illnessb | 14 | 70 |
| Other mental illnessc | 6 | 30 |
| Perceived oral health | ||
| Excellent, very good, or good | 7 | 35 |
| Fair or poor | 13 | 65 |
| Psychiatrists | 20 | 100 |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 12 | 60 |
| Female | 8 | 40 |
| Profession | ||
| Psychiatrist | 9 | 55 |
| Psychiatric resident | 11 | 45 |
| Dentists | 25 | 100 |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 15 | 60 |
| Female | 10 | 40 |
| Specialty | ||
| General dentistry | 17 | 68 |
| Specialistd | 8 | 32 |
a
Range 21–63 years.
b
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and major depressive disorder.
c
Borderline personality disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
d
Periodontics, endodontics, or oral and maxillofacial surgery.
| Barrier, code, and subcode | Patients | Psychiatrists | Dentists |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access to dental care | |||
| Socioeconomic status | √ | √ | √ |
| Cost | √ | √ | √ |
| Transportation | √ | √ | √ |
| Patients’ education level | √ | √ | |
| Limited income | √ | √ | √ |
| Lack of dental insurance | √ | √ | √ |
| Shortage of dentists | √ | ||
| Fear | |||
| Dental anxiety | √ | √ | √ |
| Fear of pain | √ | √ | √ |
| Negative experiences with dental care | √ | √ | √ |
| Perceived lack of empathy of dentists | √ | √ | √ |
| Fear of suffocation | √ | √ | |
| Dentists’ fear of treating patients with mental illness | √ | √ | |
| Characteristics of mental illness | |||
| Low self-image | √ | √ | √ |
| Mood swings | √ | √ | √ |
| Depression | √ | √ | √ |
| Perceived lack of interest in preventing dental disease | √ | √ | |
| Perceived lack of support from family members | √ | √ | |
| Low priority for oral health care | √ | √ | √ |
| Motivation | √ | √ | √ |
| Substance abuse | √ | √ | √ |
| Effect of psychiatric medications on oral health | √ | √ | √ |
| Lack of oral health screening by psychiatrists | |||
| Lack of training | √ | √ | |
| Lack of time | √ | ||
| Concern that screening will not make a difference | √ | ||
| Low priority for dental care | √ | √ | √ |
| Perception that psychiatrists believe that oral health is not a part of general or mental health | √ | √ | |
| Lack of education and training | |||
| Lack of time in schedule | √ | ||
| Dentists and psychiatrists need more training | √ | √ | |
| Patients’ lack of oral health knowledge | √ | √ | √ |
| Dentists’ lack of knowledge about mental illness | √ | √ | |
| Lack of communication | |||
| Perceived lack of access to psychiatrists | √ | ||
| Siloed aspect of oral health care | √ | √ | |
| Limited follow-up with patient when referred for dental care | √ | ||
| Lack of communication by dentists | √ | ||
| Lack of communication on oral health by psychiatrists | √ | √ | √ |
| Stigma | |||
| Perception that patients with mental illness are different | √ | √ | |
| Perception that dentists do not want to see patients with mental illness | √ | √ |
Discussion
This study explored the views of patients, psychiatrists, and dentists about barriers to and facilitators of oral health care for persons with mental illness. Consistently, the patients, dentists, and psychiatrists stated that issues related to finances were the primary reason that patients did not seek dental care. Patients typically were seen by dentists only when they had pain or emergencies. They did not seek preventive or follow-up dental care because of the associated costs. This finding highlights factors that may explain the lower use of dental care by most of the participating patients: socioeconomic challenges, higher costs associated with more serious dental disease, unaffordable private dental insurance plans, and a paucity of community dentists accepting Medicaid (28, 29). The finding is consistent with those in the literature suggesting that financial hardship often prevents individuals from accessing oral health care, because payment for these services is mostly by fee-for-service arrangements (30–33).
The barriers to accessing dental care access that are related to financial burden can partly be addressed by the expansion of state and federal programs that provide incentives for dentists to establish programs in underserved areas to provide treatment to vulnerable populations, by integrating multidisciplinary collaborations within existing health systems and by increasing provision of financial assistance programs to selected uninsured or underinsured patients. Given the symbiotic relationships among mental, general medical, and oral health outcomes, this barrier also indicates a need for effective liaisons between all medical providers, including psychiatrists and dentists working within publicly funded organizations (34).
The dentists and patients identified anxiety and fear related to receiving dental care as the second most pressing barrier. Higher psychiatric burden has been found to be associated with heightened dental anxiety, increased fear-related reactions associated with dental injections, and insufficient access to dental treatments (35). Anxiety related to dental care among patients can also cause higher provider stress, which may lead dentists to refuse care provision, especially if dental training does not address providing care to persons with mental illness (36). Most of the dentists reported the importance of using anxiety reduction techniques to decrease patient and provider stress, and all dentists stated that they felt confident in treating these patients. It is noteworthy that when the dentists commented on the fear of treating patients with mental illness, in all cases they were referring to their dentist colleagues. None of the dentists in our study reported reluctance or fear to treat patients with mental illness. However, this finding may be attributable to convenience sampling or social desirability bias. We attempted to counteract this bias by using nominative technique (37)—that is, asking dentists to comment on the perceived attitudes and fears of their colleagues who also treat patients with mental illness.
The patients in this study did not report their anxiety about dental care or previous negative experiences with such care to their psychiatrist. The psychiatrists said that they did not discuss any facilitating factors in addressing dental anxiety with their patients. This missed opportunity for communication may be related to inadequate recognition of anxiety related to dental care by psychiatrists, mediated by a lack of collaboration between existing dental and psychiatric care delivery systems. Additionally, during clinic visits, psychiatrists may put more emphasis on patients’ presenting symptoms related to their psychiatric disorders. Although not discussed by the psychiatrists in this study, it is possible that because dental anxiety was described more specifically in relation to dental procedures, psychiatrists may perceive it as a manifestation of anxiety about dental care and chairside-triggered phobia also seen among persons without mental illness. The association between dental treatment–related anxiety and psychiatric disorders may become less challenging to understand with better partnerships between psychiatric and dental providers.
Participants specifically identified a lack of screening by psychiatrists or general practitioners as a barrier to oral health care. Psychiatrists reported that they do not screen for dental issues, and the dentists reported that in their experience, nor do general health care providers. As reasons for not screening, psychiatrists reported lack of time and training and a concern that screening will not make a difference (Table 2). The psychiatrists’ concern about the low impact of screening may be related to a regional lack of resources, inadequate access to dental care, challenging insurance-related requirements, patients’ reluctance to engage in dental care, restriction of focus to presenting symptoms because of time constraints, and virtually nonexistent referral procedures. Patients reported that being regularly directed or reminded to attend to their teeth was something they specifically needed. This need underscores that clinicians and policy makers should emphasize that comorbid dental diseases should receive attention and priority on par with those for comorbid psychiatric and general medical disorders. Increasing partnerships between nondental and dental providers may help patients by bridging current health care gaps and may improve quality of life among persons with psychiatric disorders (38). Inclusion of standard checklists that general medical and psychiatric providers can administer may help identify patients who need preventive care or dental treatments.
Additionally, a brief semistructured oral health assessment can be included when assessing adverse effects related to prescribed psychiatric medications, particularly iatrogenic dry mouth, and when asking patients about lifestyle modifications, tobacco smoking, and other substance use history. Similar assessments can be performed during inpatient care, and dental follow-ups can be scheduled during discharge planning. Inclusion of screening, brief intervention, and early dental referral will help improve oral, psychiatric, and general medical outcomes among patients (39, 40).
The health providers reported gaps in their education. Specifically, dentists reported not receiving training in mental health issues, and psychiatrists reported not receiving training about the role of oral health in mental health and the need to screen for oral diseases. Both psychiatrists and dentists believed that patients’ low education levels and lack of knowledge about the importance of oral health affect their seeking dental care. Such deficits in training and education can be addressed by including in patient assessments a psychiatric history by dentists and a dental history by psychiatrists and other medical providers. Approved agencies could offer continuing dental or medical education credits toward annual requirements, educating and motivating providers to conduct screening and brief interventions and to refer patients as needed. Mental health providers are interested in oral health education, which has been confirmed by recent work indicating their willingness to learn more and perform oral health screenings for their patients (23). Dentists have also expressed a need to receive more training about mental illness (23).
Study participants viewed several factors as likely to increase utilization of preventive oral health services, including sliding fee scales, legislation for the expansion of dental benefits for adult recipients of Medicaid, and access to other types of dental insurance. As discussed, pain was considered a facilitator to seeking acute dental care but not to seeking preventive dental care. Patients stated that regular communication from psychiatrists and periodic reminders from dentists might help increase dental preventive care. Additionally, the move toward interprofessional education was seen as a potential facilitator of dental treatment, because it increases cross-training and communication.
The psychiatrists and dentists discussed the stigma of mental illness as a barrier to seeking oral health care, but they did not suggest how to overcome this stigma. It is noteworthy that the providers had the same perception about mental illness stigma that is embraced by the general public. This finding raises some public health implications, because such provider attitudes may implicitly affect their patients’ care. It appears that many senior psychiatrists or faculty dentists may have stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs about mental illness and treatment from previous decades. Stigma becomes challenging and important because senior psychiatrists and faculty dentists may relay their concerns to students and resident trainees. None of the patients mentioned stigma or the feeling of being judged in the dental office as a barrier. The patients’ perceptions regarding improving attitudes toward persons with mental illness and associated stigma are encouraging. The positive attitude change toward patients with mental illness may be a result of antistigma campaigns and greater awareness, understanding, and attention to mental health in the United States.
Finally, patients and dentists reported that dentists did not ask patients about their psychiatric diagnosis, even when it was disclosed in the patients’ medical history. Including pertinent details regarding mental illness or anxiety in shared electronic health records, although challenging to implement, may help increase interactions among various providers and contribute to a more efficient triaging process. Investments in grassroots programs by health care agencies to raise levels of awareness regarding psychological health in communities and educational institutions and among health care providers may help eliminate misinformation, misapprehensions, and stereotypes associated with mental illness and may help reduce stigma among members of the public and health care professionals.
Some limitations of the study should be noted. Convenience sampling was used for recruitment, which may have selection biases. Providers who were interviewed worked in an academic setting, and they may be different from providers in other practice environments. Although we pretested our interview guides before implementation, important topics may have been omitted; however, we note that no new topics emerged in the analysis. The patients were recruited from a mental health clinic, which limits the generalizability of the findings, because patients not engaged in mental health services did not participate in this study. Because all participants lived in eastern North Carolina, the results may not be generalizable to individuals residing in other areas of the United States.
Conclusions
Our findings describe gaps between dental and mental health care provision. Some gaps, such as financial barriers, may require policy initiatives to enable broader insurance coverage. Others may require better connections between the two fields, such as identification of oral health concerns in mental health care examinations and treatment.
Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge the staff at the ECU outpatient psychiatry clinic for assistance in carrying out this project.
Footnote
The study sponsors had no role in the study design; collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; writing of the manuscript; or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The content of this article is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ECU.
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Received: 27 October 2019
Revision received: 23 June 2020
Accepted: 2 July 2020
Published online: 25 November 2020
Published in print: February 01, 2021
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This study was supported in part by internal research start-up funding from ECU and the School of Dental Medicine.
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