update

Last week I have been checking up on my last two clients and how far the questionnaires are coming. I am also planning my interview for my main client.

Friday 16th supervisor meeting

During brake in virtual environments lecture I had another supervisor meeting. This meeting went as well as could be expected seen as a series of events led to my work being deleted. All the work was retyped Friday morning, however this meant I did not have time to finish my literature review.

During this meeting we went over my introduction and its pros and cons.
We also talked about how many questionnaires I had sent out and received back. I have sent out seventy which is quite a lot but I am still waiting for forty to be returned by two surgeries.

Between now and next meeting I need to re-write my introduction and finish writing my review. By then I would also like to have all my questionnaires back in and start analysing the data. I have also started thinking about my main clients interview.

Writing My Introduction and Other Updates

Today I have started writing up my introduction along with my literature review. I have not got as far as I wanted as I have also been working on my DFMA project. Tomorrow I will continue writing these part.

Today I also emailed my supervisor to organise our next meeting as we didn't sort this last meeting.

On the questionnaire front i am still waiting on the last forty to come back from two of my surgeries.

Analysing Data

Today I've bee analysing my data from my journals and books. After reading the journals I have found several facts about the age of onset for anxiety in dental care. I have also been researching several subject areas that came up in the journals.

The first key area is the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS). This has come in very useful as when typed into a search engine a lot more information comes up which i require for my dissertation. I found the questionnaire to work out the dental anxiety scale so now the information in the journals can be analysed further. I can now compare the levels of anxiety found on this scale as well as the percentage for the age of onset.

Another key element brought forward from my research is relaxation and different types of therapies. This links to some of the results from the questionnaires as a lot of people said they would like relaxation or therapeutic techniques to be used when at the dentist.

I have read through the questionnaires and next I am going to collate the data to create charts and diagrams of the results.

Questionnaires updates

I have now had some feedback on my questionnaires. Yesterday I pick up my batch from the Broomfield Orthodontic Clinic. These questionnaires were helpful but had a few problems. I gave fifteen questionnaires to be filled out by their patients, who I thought would be children as the orthodontist only works with this age group. However when I picked them up i found some of the parents filled in the questionnaire about their dentist. I can use these result for middle aged group but I have fewer teenagers than expected. Overall I have twelve questionnaires filled out by teenagers.
I have also given fifteen questionnaires to M & C Dentistry.
After collecting my questionnaires I went to survey the general public up and down the high street. In this time i gathered fifteen more replies. When doing this it was actually more difficult than I thought as i was there for almost three hours.

Today my main client called and I have taken out twenty-five questionnaires to this surgery. Once they are filled out I will hopefully receive a call and we are going to arrange an interview about how he feels about the patients journey through the practice.

All together I have now handed out seventy questionnaires and I waiting to receive the forty back from my clients.

Questionnaires and Supervisor Meeting

Today i had my second supervisor meeting at 10am. We decided the next steps I need to complete before the next meeting on the 15Th. I need to finish handing out my questionnaires and start to analyses my feedback. I have also got to write my introduction to my project and write about my literature search.
In total I have now sent out thirty questionnaires but i am still waiting for my main client from the Advanced Dental Clinic to reply.

Supervisor Meeting

Yesterday I had a supervisor meeting which went well. I now need to write about my literature search and start on my introduction.
I have have 3 surgeries willing to do my questionnaire, I am just waiting for my main client to reply. I took one set out yesterday which i will receive back Monday and I am going to take out a set today. I will also do some questionnaires out in Chelmsford High Street.