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Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey

BACKGROUND: COVID-19 is a global pandemic affecting all aspects of life in all countries. We assessed COVID-19 knowledge and associated factors among dental academics in 26 countries. METHODS: We invited dental academics to participate in a cross-sectional, multi-country, online survey from March to...

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Autores principales: Ammar, Nour, Aly, Nourhan M., Folayan, Morenike O., Mohebbi, Simin Z., Attia, Sameh, Howaldt, Hans-Peter, Boettger, Sebastian, Khader, Yousef, Maharani, Diah A., Rahardjo, Anton, Khan, Imran, Madi, Marwa, Shamala, Anas, Al-Batayneh, Ola B., Rashwan, Maher, Pavlic, Verica, Cicmil, Smiljka, Galluccio, Gabriella, Polimeni, Antonella, Mancino, Davide, Arheiam, Arheiam, Dama, Mai A., Nyan, Myat, Phantumvanit, Prathip, Kim, Jin-Bom, Choi, Youn-Hee, Castillo, Jorge L., Joury, Easter, Abdelsalam, Maha M., Alkeshan, Mohammad M., Hussein, Iyad, Vukovic, Ana P., Iandolo, Alfredo, Kemoli, Arthur M., El Tantawi, Maha
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7605331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33138810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02308-w
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author Ammar, Nour
Aly, Nourhan M.
Folayan, Morenike O.
Mohebbi, Simin Z.
Attia, Sameh
Howaldt, Hans-Peter
Boettger, Sebastian
Khader, Yousef
Maharani, Diah A.
Rahardjo, Anton
Khan, Imran
Madi, Marwa
Shamala, Anas
Al-Batayneh, Ola B.
Rashwan, Maher
Pavlic, Verica
Cicmil, Smiljka
Galluccio, Gabriella
Polimeni, Antonella
Mancino, Davide
Arheiam, Arheiam
Dama, Mai A.
Nyan, Myat
Phantumvanit, Prathip
Kim, Jin-Bom
Choi, Youn-Hee
Castillo, Jorge L.
Joury, Easter
Abdelsalam, Maha M.
Alkeshan, Mohammad M.
Hussein, Iyad
Vukovic, Ana P.
Iandolo, Alfredo
Kemoli, Arthur M.
El Tantawi, Maha
author_facet Ammar, Nour
Aly, Nourhan M.
Folayan, Morenike O.
Mohebbi, Simin Z.
Attia, Sameh
Howaldt, Hans-Peter
Boettger, Sebastian
Khader, Yousef
Maharani, Diah A.
Rahardjo, Anton
Khan, Imran
Madi, Marwa
Shamala, Anas
Al-Batayneh, Ola B.
Rashwan, Maher
Pavlic, Verica
Cicmil, Smiljka
Galluccio, Gabriella
Polimeni, Antonella
Mancino, Davide
Arheiam, Arheiam
Dama, Mai A.
Nyan, Myat
Phantumvanit, Prathip
Kim, Jin-Bom
Choi, Youn-Hee
Castillo, Jorge L.
Joury, Easter
Abdelsalam, Maha M.
Alkeshan, Mohammad M.
Hussein, Iyad
Vukovic, Ana P.
Iandolo, Alfredo
Kemoli, Arthur M.
El Tantawi, Maha
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description BACKGROUND: COVID-19 is a global pandemic affecting all aspects of life in all countries. We assessed COVID-19 knowledge and associated factors among dental academics in 26 countries. METHODS: We invited dental academics to participate in a cross-sectional, multi-country, online survey from March to April 2020. The survey collected data on knowledge of COVID-19 regarding the mode of transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, protection, and dental treatment precautions as well as participants’ background variables. Multilevel linear models were used to assess the association between dental academics’ knowledge of COVID-19 and individual level (personal and professional) and country-level (number of COVID-19 cases/ million population) factors accounting for random variation among countries. RESULTS: Two thousand forty-five academics participated in the survey (response rate 14.3%, with 54.7% female and 67% younger than 46 years of age). The mean (SD) knowledge percent score was 73.2 (11.2) %, and the score of knowledge of symptoms was significantly lower than the score of knowledge of diagnostic methods (53.1 and 85.4%, P <  0.0001). Knowledge score was significantly higher among those living with a partner/spouse than among those living alone (regression coefficient (B) = 0.48); higher among those with PhD degrees than among those with Bachelor of Dental Science degrees (B = 0.48); higher among those seeing 21 to 30 patients daily than among those seeing no patients (B = 0.65); and higher among those from countries with a higher number of COVID-19 cases/million population (B = 0.0007). CONCLUSIONS: Dental academics had poorer knowledge of COVID-19 symptoms than of COVID-19 diagnostic methods. Living arrangements, academic degrees, patient load, and magnitude of the epidemic in the country were associated with COVD-19 knowledge among dental academics. Training of dental academics on COVID-19 can be designed using these findings to recruit those with the greatest need.
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spelling pubmed-76053312020-11-03 Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey Ammar, Nour Aly, Nourhan M. Folayan, Morenike O. Mohebbi, Simin Z. Attia, Sameh Howaldt, Hans-Peter Boettger, Sebastian Khader, Yousef Maharani, Diah A. Rahardjo, Anton Khan, Imran Madi, Marwa Shamala, Anas Al-Batayneh, Ola B. Rashwan, Maher Pavlic, Verica Cicmil, Smiljka Galluccio, Gabriella Polimeni, Antonella Mancino, Davide Arheiam, Arheiam Dama, Mai A. Nyan, Myat Phantumvanit, Prathip Kim, Jin-Bom Choi, Youn-Hee Castillo, Jorge L. Joury, Easter Abdelsalam, Maha M. Alkeshan, Mohammad M. Hussein, Iyad Vukovic, Ana P. Iandolo, Alfredo Kemoli, Arthur M. El Tantawi, Maha BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: COVID-19 is a global pandemic affecting all aspects of life in all countries. We assessed COVID-19 knowledge and associated factors among dental academics in 26 countries. METHODS: We invited dental academics to participate in a cross-sectional, multi-country, online survey from March to April 2020. The survey collected data on knowledge of COVID-19 regarding the mode of transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, protection, and dental treatment precautions as well as participants’ background variables. Multilevel linear models were used to assess the association between dental academics’ knowledge of COVID-19 and individual level (personal and professional) and country-level (number of COVID-19 cases/ million population) factors accounting for random variation among countries. RESULTS: Two thousand forty-five academics participated in the survey (response rate 14.3%, with 54.7% female and 67% younger than 46 years of age). The mean (SD) knowledge percent score was 73.2 (11.2) %, and the score of knowledge of symptoms was significantly lower than the score of knowledge of diagnostic methods (53.1 and 85.4%, P <  0.0001). Knowledge score was significantly higher among those living with a partner/spouse than among those living alone (regression coefficient (B) = 0.48); higher among those with PhD degrees than among those with Bachelor of Dental Science degrees (B = 0.48); higher among those seeing 21 to 30 patients daily than among those seeing no patients (B = 0.65); and higher among those from countries with a higher number of COVID-19 cases/million population (B = 0.0007). CONCLUSIONS: Dental academics had poorer knowledge of COVID-19 symptoms than of COVID-19 diagnostic methods. Living arrangements, academic degrees, patient load, and magnitude of the epidemic in the country were associated with COVD-19 knowledge among dental academics. Training of dental academics on COVID-19 can be designed using these findings to recruit those with the greatest need. BioMed Central 2020-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7605331/ /pubmed/33138810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02308-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ammar, Nour
Aly, Nourhan M.
Folayan, Morenike O.
Mohebbi, Simin Z.
Attia, Sameh
Howaldt, Hans-Peter
Boettger, Sebastian
Khader, Yousef
Maharani, Diah A.
Rahardjo, Anton
Khan, Imran
Madi, Marwa
Shamala, Anas
Al-Batayneh, Ola B.
Rashwan, Maher
Pavlic, Verica
Cicmil, Smiljka
Galluccio, Gabriella
Polimeni, Antonella
Mancino, Davide
Arheiam, Arheiam
Dama, Mai A.
Nyan, Myat
Phantumvanit, Prathip
Kim, Jin-Bom
Choi, Youn-Hee
Castillo, Jorge L.
Joury, Easter
Abdelsalam, Maha M.
Alkeshan, Mohammad M.
Hussein, Iyad
Vukovic, Ana P.
Iandolo, Alfredo
Kemoli, Arthur M.
El Tantawi, Maha
Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey
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title_fullStr Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey
title_short Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey
title_sort knowledge of dental academics about the covid-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7605331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33138810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02308-w
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