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Attitudes and Practices of Dental Students in Providing Oral Health-Care Services to Underserved Rural Patients Attending Dental Institutions of Telangana, India
INTRODUCTION: Attitude is a relatively enduring organization of beliefs around an object, subject, or concept, which predisposes one to respond in some preferential manner. It decides one’s action. Dental students frequently come across underserved rural population and must have good attitudes towar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6398311/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30923429 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_215_18 |
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author | Dande, Rajbhushan Gone, Hari Prasad Saikrishna, HVN Sayini, Abhisek R. R. Malgari, Sai Teja R. Paramkusham, Varshapriyadarshini |
author_facet | Dande, Rajbhushan Gone, Hari Prasad Saikrishna, HVN Sayini, Abhisek R. R. Malgari, Sai Teja R. Paramkusham, Varshapriyadarshini |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Attitude is a relatively enduring organization of beliefs around an object, subject, or concept, which predisposes one to respond in some preferential manner. It decides one’s action. Dental students frequently come across underserved rural population and must have good attitudes toward them, so that the care delivered to them will be optimum. AIM: To assess the attitudes and practices of dental students in providing oral health-care services to underserved rural patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among final-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) students, interns, and postgraduate students who are involved in providing dental care in dental institutions of Telangana State, India. A 15-item, self-structured, pretested questionnaire was administered. Descriptive statistics were calculated using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software, version 20.0. Attitudes and practices of undergraduates and postgraduates were compared using paired t-test. RESULTS: A total of 574 students participated in the study. Approximately 73.3% of the dental students agreed that they personally want to be involved in providing oral health care for the underserved and 27.1% students disagreed that underserved patients are subjects on whom they can train and expertise. Approximately 56.62% of dental students often asked patients about the expenses they bear for attending a single dental visit and 53.48% tried to minimize the number of appointments required for the patients. No significant difference was observed in attitudes between undergraduates and postgraduates. CONCLUSION: Dental students had moderate attitude toward underserved patients but this was not reflected in their practices. |
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spelling | pubmed-63983112019-03-28 Attitudes and Practices of Dental Students in Providing Oral Health-Care Services to Underserved Rural Patients Attending Dental Institutions of Telangana, India Dande, Rajbhushan Gone, Hari Prasad Saikrishna, HVN Sayini, Abhisek R. R. Malgari, Sai Teja R. Paramkusham, Varshapriyadarshini J Pharm Bioallied Sci Original Research INTRODUCTION: Attitude is a relatively enduring organization of beliefs around an object, subject, or concept, which predisposes one to respond in some preferential manner. It decides one’s action. Dental students frequently come across underserved rural population and must have good attitudes toward them, so that the care delivered to them will be optimum. AIM: To assess the attitudes and practices of dental students in providing oral health-care services to underserved rural patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among final-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) students, interns, and postgraduate students who are involved in providing dental care in dental institutions of Telangana State, India. A 15-item, self-structured, pretested questionnaire was administered. Descriptive statistics were calculated using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software, version 20.0. Attitudes and practices of undergraduates and postgraduates were compared using paired t-test. RESULTS: A total of 574 students participated in the study. Approximately 73.3% of the dental students agreed that they personally want to be involved in providing oral health care for the underserved and 27.1% students disagreed that underserved patients are subjects on whom they can train and expertise. Approximately 56.62% of dental students often asked patients about the expenses they bear for attending a single dental visit and 53.48% tried to minimize the number of appointments required for the patients. No significant difference was observed in attitudes between undergraduates and postgraduates. CONCLUSION: Dental students had moderate attitude toward underserved patients but this was not reflected in their practices. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6398311/ /pubmed/30923429 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_215_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Dande, Rajbhushan Gone, Hari Prasad Saikrishna, HVN Sayini, Abhisek R. R. Malgari, Sai Teja R. Paramkusham, Varshapriyadarshini Attitudes and Practices of Dental Students in Providing Oral Health-Care Services to Underserved Rural Patients Attending Dental Institutions of Telangana, India |
title | Attitudes and Practices of Dental Students in Providing Oral Health-Care Services to Underserved Rural Patients Attending Dental Institutions of Telangana, India |
title_full | Attitudes and Practices of Dental Students in Providing Oral Health-Care Services to Underserved Rural Patients Attending Dental Institutions of Telangana, India |
title_fullStr | Attitudes and Practices of Dental Students in Providing Oral Health-Care Services to Underserved Rural Patients Attending Dental Institutions of Telangana, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Attitudes and Practices of Dental Students in Providing Oral Health-Care Services to Underserved Rural Patients Attending Dental Institutions of Telangana, India |
title_short | Attitudes and Practices of Dental Students in Providing Oral Health-Care Services to Underserved Rural Patients Attending Dental Institutions of Telangana, India |
title_sort | attitudes and practices of dental students in providing oral health-care services to underserved rural patients attending dental institutions of telangana, india |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6398311/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30923429 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_215_18 |
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