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Emotional Health Status of Postgraduate Students of Periodontics in India During COVID Health Crisis—A Questionnaire-Based Study
Dental students, especially postgraduate students present a higher risk of getting infected because of their close contact with the patients during this pandemic. The objectives of the study include (a) the reasons for postgraduate students’ altered emotional status during coronavirus (COVID-19) inf...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8640310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34869837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735211056436 |
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author | Pasupuleti, Mohan Kumar Penmetsa, Gautami S Gottumukkala, Sruthima NVS Vintha, Jaswitha Santosh Vamsi, E Meghana, G |
author_facet | Pasupuleti, Mohan Kumar Penmetsa, Gautami S Gottumukkala, Sruthima NVS Vintha, Jaswitha Santosh Vamsi, E Meghana, G |
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description | Dental students, especially postgraduate students present a higher risk of getting infected because of their close contact with the patients during this pandemic. The objectives of the study include (a) the reasons for postgraduate students’ altered emotional status during coronavirus (COVID-19) infection. (b) To assess the kind of infection protocols adopted. (c) To assess the impacts of postgraduate students’ emotional status on treating patients with periodontal problems during the COVID-19 lockdown period from March 2020 to December 2020. The emotional status of postgraduate students was assessed in 2 phases that are at the initial phase of COVID infection and lockdown and the second phase when the lockdown was prolonged. Questionnaires were distributed to the Postgraduate students of periodontics all over India to assess their level of awareness of COVID infection, type of infection control measures followed during the pandemic period, as well as the outpatient turnout during the lockdown period. Results of this study stated that more than 80% of students addressed the decline in the number of patients to surgical clinics, 76.3% of postgraduates were worried about themselves and their families due to the pandemic situation. Surprisingly, 74.3% of them even worried about losing their expertize or skills due to a long lockdown period. Dental postgraduates all over India are willing to treat their patients during the period of a pandemic but in strict compliance with infection control guidelines. This study assessed the emotional responses of the postgraduates during the pandemic through the questionnaire and concluded that all the professionals are ready to resume their clinical activities with adequate guidelines provided. |
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spelling | pubmed-86403102021-12-04 Emotional Health Status of Postgraduate Students of Periodontics in India During COVID Health Crisis—A Questionnaire-Based Study Pasupuleti, Mohan Kumar Penmetsa, Gautami S Gottumukkala, Sruthima NVS Vintha, Jaswitha Santosh Vamsi, E Meghana, G J Patient Exp Research Article Dental students, especially postgraduate students present a higher risk of getting infected because of their close contact with the patients during this pandemic. The objectives of the study include (a) the reasons for postgraduate students’ altered emotional status during coronavirus (COVID-19) infection. (b) To assess the kind of infection protocols adopted. (c) To assess the impacts of postgraduate students’ emotional status on treating patients with periodontal problems during the COVID-19 lockdown period from March 2020 to December 2020. The emotional status of postgraduate students was assessed in 2 phases that are at the initial phase of COVID infection and lockdown and the second phase when the lockdown was prolonged. Questionnaires were distributed to the Postgraduate students of periodontics all over India to assess their level of awareness of COVID infection, type of infection control measures followed during the pandemic period, as well as the outpatient turnout during the lockdown period. Results of this study stated that more than 80% of students addressed the decline in the number of patients to surgical clinics, 76.3% of postgraduates were worried about themselves and their families due to the pandemic situation. Surprisingly, 74.3% of them even worried about losing their expertize or skills due to a long lockdown period. Dental postgraduates all over India are willing to treat their patients during the period of a pandemic but in strict compliance with infection control guidelines. This study assessed the emotional responses of the postgraduates during the pandemic through the questionnaire and concluded that all the professionals are ready to resume their clinical activities with adequate guidelines provided. SAGE Publications 2021-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8640310/ /pubmed/34869837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735211056436 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Article Pasupuleti, Mohan Kumar Penmetsa, Gautami S Gottumukkala, Sruthima NVS Vintha, Jaswitha Santosh Vamsi, E Meghana, G Emotional Health Status of Postgraduate Students of Periodontics in India During COVID Health Crisis—A Questionnaire-Based Study |
title | Emotional Health Status of Postgraduate Students of Periodontics in India During COVID Health Crisis—A Questionnaire-Based Study |
title_full | Emotional Health Status of Postgraduate Students of Periodontics in India During COVID Health Crisis—A Questionnaire-Based Study |
title_fullStr | Emotional Health Status of Postgraduate Students of Periodontics in India During COVID Health Crisis—A Questionnaire-Based Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Emotional Health Status of Postgraduate Students of Periodontics in India During COVID Health Crisis—A Questionnaire-Based Study |
title_short | Emotional Health Status of Postgraduate Students of Periodontics in India During COVID Health Crisis—A Questionnaire-Based Study |
title_sort | emotional health status of postgraduate students of periodontics in india during covid health crisis—a questionnaire-based study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8640310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34869837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735211056436 |
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