Knowledge and Attitude of clinical level dental students concerning HIV/AIDS

Obuekwe, ON; Osaiyuwu, Omokaro; Onyeaso, Chukwudi Ochi; Ugbodaga, PI

doi:10.4314/ndj.v15i1.42093

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“…However another study on knowledge and attitude of clinical level dental students concerning HIV/AIDS reported that though the students exhibited positive attitude concerning HIV and AIDS, their knowledge of laboratory investigations and infection control measures were poor. 7 In this study, the students' knowledge of the average time interval between contracting HIV and sero-converting was less than adequate. The average time of sero-converting has been found to be within 6-12 weeks of exposure.…”

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confidence: 84%

Dental students’ knowledge of human immunodeficiency virus

Ajayi

2008

Journal of Dentistry

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 84%

Dental students’ knowledge of human immunodeficiency virus

Ajayi

2008

Journal of Dentistry

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“…Previous literature has demonstrated a wide range of attitudes towards providing dental care for patients with blood‐borne diseases, especially HIV/AIDS, across different cultures. However, the majority of the global literature that discusses dentists’ attitudes towards treating HIV and viral hepatitis‐positive patients is based only on dentists’ stated behaviour, which might not be in line with their actual behaviour.…”

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confidence: 99%

Factors related to the willingness of Palestinian dentists to treat patients with blood-borne diseases

Kateeb

Amer

Musa

2015

International Dental Journal

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This study aimed to explore, using groups of simulated patients, the willingness of Palestinian dentists to treat patients with blood-borne diseases. Simulated patients conducted a telephone survey of a random sample of dentists registered with the Palestinian Dental Association. A random system was used to assign dentists to one of two groups, in which simulated patients randomly identified themselves with either human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis B virus (HBV) and asked for a dental appointment. Three-hundred and four dentists (76%) responded to our telephone survey. Sixty-six per cent accepted requests for appointments and 34% declined the appointment requests. Sixty-eight per cent of the dentists declined appointment requests from patients with HIV and 32% declined appointments from patients with HBV. Dentist's gender, 'blood-borne disease type', 'place of private practice', 'country of graduation' and 'years since graduation' were all significant predictors in the final logistic model. More than one-third of our respondents declined appointment requests from patients with blood-borne disease, two-thirds of which were for patients who identified themselves as having HIV. Education and training programmes are needed to improve attitudes of dentists - especially female dentists, older dentists and dentists practising in northern governorates - towards patients with blood-borne diseases.

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“…Perception of risk in relation to care of HIV positive person potentially influences the willingness to provide care 21 . There are studies assessing knowledge and attitude of HIV/AIDS among oral health care workers in Nigeria [22][23][24] but to date the authors are not aware of any such study on dental nursing students.…”

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confidence: 99%