Knowledge, attitude and practice of dental students and practitioners during the early days of COVID‐19 pandemic in India: A cross‐sectional study

Rao, Lakshmi Nidhi; Shetty, Aditya; Senthilkumar, Priyanka Latha; Shetty, Kailkere Shreya; Shetty, Bhavya; Natarajan, Srikant; Rao, Prasanna Kumar; Baliga, Manjeshwar Shrinath

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“…Among the knowledge questions, there were four remarkable questions. Firstly, only 34.34% of Vietnamese students knew that exposure to/eating wild animals could not lead to COVID-19 infection (question K5), lower than the findings of studies in Serbia (49.1%) [20], Egypt (47.2%) [29], and Bhutan (44.6%) [19] but higher than those in Indonesia (31.8%) [13] and India (13.9%) [30]. 74.2% of university students in Pakistan knew that COVID-19 could not be transmitted via mosquito bites (question K4) [31].…”

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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of university students regarding COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in Vietnam

Doan

Tran

et al. 2022

BMC Public Health

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Objective This cross-sectional study investigated the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of Vietnamese university students regarding COVID-19. Methods A validated questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha = 0.71) was used to survey 1,025 students. A convenience sampling method was used for recruiting students from April to May 2022. The Wilcoxon rank-sum test and the Kruskal–Wallis rank-sum test/Dunn test for multiple comparisons were employed to compare students' KAP scores between two groups and among three groups or more, respectively. Factors associated with students' COVID-19 KAP scores were determined via univariate and multivariate linear regression models. Variables in the multivariate linear regression models were chosen using the Bayesian Model Averaging method in R software version 4.2.0. Results A majority of students had good knowledge (75.61%), positive attitudes (98.24%), and good practices toward COVID-19 (94.93%). Regarding the COVID-19 knowledge, the proportions of students who knew that mosquito bites and exposure to/eating wild animals would not lead to COVID-19 infection were not high (47.22 and 34.34%, respectively). More importantly, 70.34% of students thought that vitamins and minerals could help prevent or cure COVID-19. Antibiotics were the first choice for COVID-19 treatment of 438 students (42.73%). Nearly half of students (48.0%) bought antibiotics to keep at home in case of COVID-19 infection. The average KAP scores of medical students (19.97 ± 3.99, 45.10 ± 3.94, 9.72 ± 1.78) and females (18.67 ± 4.44, 44.79 ± 3.79, 9.36 ± 1.84) were significantly higher than those of non-medical students (16.48 ± 4.37, 43.33 ± 4.03, 8.68 ± 1.87) and males (17.01 ± 4.55, 42.79 ± 4.39, 8.77 ± 1.97), respectively (p < 0.001). Older students were more likely to have good knowledge and practices than the younger ones (p < 0.001). In addition, students using websites of the World Health Organization/the Ministry of Health and scientific articles to seek COVID-19 information were significantly associated with higher KAP scores when compared with those not using these sources (p < 0.001, p < 0.001, and p = 0.00139, respectively). Conclusion Students' KAP scores significantly varied by age, sex, major, and sources of COVID-19 information. Although many students had sufficient knowledge, positive attitudes, and good preventive practices toward COVID-19, additional education and training strategies are paramount, especially for non-medical students and males.

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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of university students regarding COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in Vietnam

Doan

Tran

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BMC Public Health

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“…Firstly, the obtained results reflect the knowledge and training in infection control practices, as the adherence to guidelines is said to be influenced by knowledge and attitudes towards COVID-19. Further, dental practitioners’ knowledge and attitudes provide insights into the perceptions and practices adopted as responsive behaviors to the pandemic [ 77 ]. The fact that more items received a higher score is indicative of the knowledge and attitude of dental practitioners in India [ 78 , 79 ].…”

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Assessing the Compliance of Dental Clinicians towards Regulatory Infection Control Guidelines Using a Newly Developed Survey Tool: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study in India

Kaurani

Batra

Hooja³

et al. 2022

Healthcare

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Adherence to the dental practice regulatory guidelines instituted during the COVID-19 pandemic is essential to minimize the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 strains. Given the lack of a valid and reliable survey tool to assess the adherence to dental practice guidelines, this study aims to develop, validate, and test a survey tool on a pilot sample of dental clinicians practicing in India. A survey tool was developed/validated through a sequential phasic approach: Phase I- developing survey using conceptual and literature framework; Phase II: ascertaining its validity and reliability; Phase III: pilot testing; and Phase IV: assessing construct validity by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on the responses collected in Spring 2021. The EFA was achieved using a traditional unweighted least squares extraction method through a varimax rotation with Kaiser normalization. A six-factor solution with 18 items (with the global reliability of 86%) related to screening, regular infection prevention measures, infection control inside the dental operatory, disinfection of the dental unit, disposal, and other COVID-19-specific preventive measures were extracted. Our sample had higher compliance with regard to providing alcohol-based hand scrubs, providing protective gear to attendees, collecting travel/medical history, and screening patients for COVID-19 symptoms. In contrast, less compliance was observed regarding the use of paperless forms of practice and rubber dams in the operatory. The use of a validated survey tool ensures the collection of reliable and valid data, which can serve as baseline data to measure the uptake and effectiveness of dental practice regulatory guidelines in a clinical setting and community dental health clinics.

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“…To determine the patient’s readiness to accept changes introduced into the dental practice assessment of their knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) is a fundamental step [ 7 ]. Globally, since the outbreak of COVID-19, several studies have been carried out to assess the KAP of oral health professionals related to COVID-19 [ 1 , 4 , 8 ], but there is a paucity of information regarding the same subject among dental patients. Since COVID-19, in a dental setup, may be spread from an infected patient to either another patient or to the dental staff and vice versa, the task of reducing COVID-19 spread is a matter of concern for both the patients and the health professionals.…”

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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to COVID-19 among patients attending public dental clinics in Tanzania: A cross-sectional study

Sohal

Moris²,

Moshy³

2022

PLoS ONE

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Introduction The risk of contracting COVID-19 through dental treatment is potentially high, thus several guidelines have been developed to minimize the spread of COVID-19 in the dental office worldwide. These changes have posed some relevant questions among oral health professionals regarding the understanding and attitudes of dental patients toward COVID-19. This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices of dental patients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Methodology This cross-sectional study was carried out in 4 public hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania involving 472 adult patients. Data were collected using a questionnaire that had a set of questions regarding knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) related to COVID-19. Data were analyzed using the SPSS computer software version 26. For descriptive analysis means, standard error of the mean, and proportion were used. Multivariate regression analysis was utilized for the response analysis. Alpha of less than 0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance. Results Good levels of knowledge, attitude, and practices related to COVID-19 were found in 76.5%, 74.8%, and 58.1% of participants respectively. On performing multivariate analysis, odds of having good knowledge regarding COVID-19 were almost 2 folds higher in participants who were females, with high education levels, those without partners, and those with stable income. Females were 1.5 folds more likely to have a good attitude toward COVID-19 and odds of good practice against COVID-19 were 3 folds higher in young adults compared to the elderly. Conclusion A majority of dental patients have good knowledge and attitude related to COVID-19. Predictors of good knowledge were sex, education level, marital status, and income of the participants. Sex predicted good attitude and age predicted good practice.

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Knowledge, attitude and practice of dental students and practitioners during the early days of COVID‐19 pandemic in India: A cross‐sectional study

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of university students regarding COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in Vietnam

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of university students regarding COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in Vietnam

Assessing the Compliance of Dental Clinicians towards Regulatory Infection Control Guidelines Using a Newly Developed Survey Tool: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study in India

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to COVID-19 among patients attending public dental clinics in Tanzania: A cross-sectional study

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