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Dental Students and COVID 19: An Online Multinational Survey on Perception and Knowledge
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus is an emerging respiratory pathogen that causes coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), as per the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the state of awareness and extent of knowledge about COVID-19 among dental students from In...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9020637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35313412 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_149_21 |
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author | Koppolu, Pradeep Tanvir, Syed Bilal Lingam, Amara Swapna Noor, Muhammad Zakir Barakat, Ali Alwahibi, Mohammed Saleh Almoallim, Hesham Aqerban, Ali Noushad, Mohammed Niazi, Fayez Hussain |
author_facet | Koppolu, Pradeep Tanvir, Syed Bilal Lingam, Amara Swapna Noor, Muhammad Zakir Barakat, Ali Alwahibi, Mohammed Saleh Almoallim, Hesham Aqerban, Ali Noushad, Mohammed Niazi, Fayez Hussain |
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description | BACKGROUND: Coronavirus is an emerging respiratory pathogen that causes coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), as per the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the state of awareness and extent of knowledge about COVID-19 among dental students from India, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 872 participants from December 2020 to January 2021. Random sampling was performed using an electronic questionnaire. One-way analysis of variance and independent sample t-test were performed to assess and compare the mean knowledge score between different demographic data. RESULTS: Approximately 60% (n = 520) of the responders were women and 40% responders were men (n = 352). The responders were from Saudi Arabia (36.9%; n = 322), India (34.2%; n = 298), and Pakistan (28.8%; n = 252). The difference within the subgroups was statistically nonsignificant (P > 0.05), indicating that dental students of all subparameters possessed equal knowledge on COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: Dental students possess sufficient knowledge about COVID-19, qualifying them at least to work in a medical ward. However, more emphasis must be placed on infection prevention and control policies such as hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, and pre- and postexposure prophylaxis. |
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spelling | pubmed-90206372022-04-21 Dental Students and COVID 19: An Online Multinational Survey on Perception and Knowledge Koppolu, Pradeep Tanvir, Syed Bilal Lingam, Amara Swapna Noor, Muhammad Zakir Barakat, Ali Alwahibi, Mohammed Saleh Almoallim, Hesham Aqerban, Ali Noushad, Mohammed Niazi, Fayez Hussain Ann Afr Med Original Article BACKGROUND: Coronavirus is an emerging respiratory pathogen that causes coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), as per the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the state of awareness and extent of knowledge about COVID-19 among dental students from India, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 872 participants from December 2020 to January 2021. Random sampling was performed using an electronic questionnaire. One-way analysis of variance and independent sample t-test were performed to assess and compare the mean knowledge score between different demographic data. RESULTS: Approximately 60% (n = 520) of the responders were women and 40% responders were men (n = 352). The responders were from Saudi Arabia (36.9%; n = 322), India (34.2%; n = 298), and Pakistan (28.8%; n = 252). The difference within the subgroups was statistically nonsignificant (P > 0.05), indicating that dental students of all subparameters possessed equal knowledge on COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: Dental students possess sufficient knowledge about COVID-19, qualifying them at least to work in a medical ward. However, more emphasis must be placed on infection prevention and control policies such as hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, and pre- and postexposure prophylaxis. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9020637/ /pubmed/35313412 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_149_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Annals of African Medicine https://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 Article Koppolu, Pradeep Tanvir, Syed Bilal Lingam, Amara Swapna Noor, Muhammad Zakir Barakat, Ali Alwahibi, Mohammed Saleh Almoallim, Hesham Aqerban, Ali Noushad, Mohammed Niazi, Fayez Hussain Dental Students and COVID 19: An Online Multinational Survey on Perception and Knowledge |
title | Dental Students and COVID 19: An Online Multinational Survey on Perception and Knowledge |
title_full | Dental Students and COVID 19: An Online Multinational Survey on Perception and Knowledge |
title_fullStr | Dental Students and COVID 19: An Online Multinational Survey on Perception and Knowledge |
title_full_unstemmed | Dental Students and COVID 19: An Online Multinational Survey on Perception and Knowledge |
title_short | Dental Students and COVID 19: An Online Multinational Survey on Perception and Knowledge |
title_sort | dental students and covid 19: an online multinational survey on perception and knowledge |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9020637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35313412 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_149_21 |
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