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Knowledge and Attitudes of Primary Health Care Dentists Regarding Oral Cancer in Brazil
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of dentists working in Primary Health Care Units from a Brazilian city, regarding oral cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective, cross-sectional, epidemiologic survey was performed. Seventy-one dentists from Primary Hea...
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University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, and Croatian Dental Society - Croatian Medical Association
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6508927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31118533 http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc53/1/6 |
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author | Leonel, Augusto César Leal da Silva Soares, Caio Belém Rodrigues Barros Lisboa de Castro, Jurema Freire Bonan, Paulo Rogério Ferreti Ramos-Perez, Flávia Maria de Moraes Perez, Danyel Elias da Cruz |
author_facet | Leonel, Augusto César Leal da Silva Soares, Caio Belém Rodrigues Barros Lisboa de Castro, Jurema Freire Bonan, Paulo Rogério Ferreti Ramos-Perez, Flávia Maria de Moraes Perez, Danyel Elias da Cruz |
author_sort | Leonel, Augusto César Leal da Silva |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of dentists working in Primary Health Care Units from a Brazilian city, regarding oral cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective, cross-sectional, epidemiologic survey was performed. Seventy-one dentists from Primary Health Care Units were contacted at their workplace, and participated of the study. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire of 31 multiple-choice questions addressing the main clinical features and risk factors for oral cancer. The questionnaire was divided into two sections: questions related to general data and self-perception of the participants regarding personal knowledge of oral cancer, and objective questions related to general information on oral cancer (clinical features, characteristics, traits, and risk factors). The data were tabulated and analyzed by descriptive statistics. RESULTS: Participants were mostly females (81.5%), less than 40 years of age (57.7%), who underwent training 10–20 years ago (47.9%). Most respondents (66.2%) considered their level of knowledge about oral cancer to be satisfactory. However, only 26.8% of tem felt that they were able to carry out diagnostic procedures for oral cancer. Most of them (95.8%) were interested in participating in training courses on Oral Diagnostics; 56.3% of them reported not having received any training or guidance on how to conduct an examination to detect oral cancer during undergraduate training. CONCLUSIONS: These findings are consistent with previous reports and point to the need for new public policies to enable early diagnosis of oral cancer and a review of training in Oral Diagnostics in dental schools. |
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spelling | pubmed-65089272019-05-22 Knowledge and Attitudes of Primary Health Care Dentists Regarding Oral Cancer in Brazil Leonel, Augusto César Leal da Silva Soares, Caio Belém Rodrigues Barros Lisboa de Castro, Jurema Freire Bonan, Paulo Rogério Ferreti Ramos-Perez, Flávia Maria de Moraes Perez, Danyel Elias da Cruz Acta Stomatol Croat Original Scientific Papers OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of dentists working in Primary Health Care Units from a Brazilian city, regarding oral cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective, cross-sectional, epidemiologic survey was performed. Seventy-one dentists from Primary Health Care Units were contacted at their workplace, and participated of the study. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire of 31 multiple-choice questions addressing the main clinical features and risk factors for oral cancer. The questionnaire was divided into two sections: questions related to general data and self-perception of the participants regarding personal knowledge of oral cancer, and objective questions related to general information on oral cancer (clinical features, characteristics, traits, and risk factors). The data were tabulated and analyzed by descriptive statistics. RESULTS: Participants were mostly females (81.5%), less than 40 years of age (57.7%), who underwent training 10–20 years ago (47.9%). Most respondents (66.2%) considered their level of knowledge about oral cancer to be satisfactory. However, only 26.8% of tem felt that they were able to carry out diagnostic procedures for oral cancer. Most of them (95.8%) were interested in participating in training courses on Oral Diagnostics; 56.3% of them reported not having received any training or guidance on how to conduct an examination to detect oral cancer during undergraduate training. CONCLUSIONS: These findings are consistent with previous reports and point to the need for new public policies to enable early diagnosis of oral cancer and a review of training in Oral Diagnostics in dental schools. University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, and Croatian Dental Society - Croatian Medical Association 2019-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6508927/ /pubmed/31118533 http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc53/1/6 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 License. |
spellingShingle | Original Scientific Papers Leonel, Augusto César Leal da Silva Soares, Caio Belém Rodrigues Barros Lisboa de Castro, Jurema Freire Bonan, Paulo Rogério Ferreti Ramos-Perez, Flávia Maria de Moraes Perez, Danyel Elias da Cruz Knowledge and Attitudes of Primary Health Care Dentists Regarding Oral Cancer in Brazil |
title | Knowledge and Attitudes of Primary Health Care Dentists Regarding Oral Cancer in Brazil |
title_full | Knowledge and Attitudes of Primary Health Care Dentists Regarding Oral Cancer in Brazil |
title_fullStr | Knowledge and Attitudes of Primary Health Care Dentists Regarding Oral Cancer in Brazil |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge and Attitudes of Primary Health Care Dentists Regarding Oral Cancer in Brazil |
title_short | Knowledge and Attitudes of Primary Health Care Dentists Regarding Oral Cancer in Brazil |
title_sort | knowledge and attitudes of primary health care dentists regarding oral cancer in brazil |
topic | Original Scientific Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6508927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31118533 http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc53/1/6 |
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