Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and attitude of dental students towards HIV/AIDS patients: A cross-sectional survey

Patil, Prashant; Sreenivasan, Varun K. A.; Goel, Ankit

doi:10.4103/0974-7761.103676

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“…An encouraging finding where maximum 138 (98.1%) strongly agreed/agreed (SA/A) that it is their moral responsibility to treat HIV/AIDS patients and risk of HIV transmission is high, hence special precautions have to be followed to treat them is higher in comparison to similar study conducted by Patil et al 12 Some questions like if you know your friend has HIV infection, you will end the relationship, if your colleague is HIV infected, you will stop working with him/her and treatment of HIV/AIDS patients means wasting national resources, got a good attitude score of 93.8%, 93.1% and 92.4% respectively.…”

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Knowledge and attitude among students towards HIV/AIDS patients at a dental college, Suraram, India

Rani¹,

Dumpala²,

Shyamala³

2017

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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Background: Clinical training is a part of curriculum for the dental students. They are trained in dental procedures, where there is a chance of exposure to HIV infection. Hence this study was conducted with an objective to assess their knowledge, attitude to treat these patients.Methods: An institutional based study was carried out among 145 dental students at Malla Reddy Dental College for Women. A questionnaire with 29 questions on knowledge, attitude and willing to treat the HIV/AIDS patients which was already used in other study was adapted. Primary outcome- knowledge and attitude was measured in percentages, proportions using SPSS version 20 and Chi-square.Results: Total subjects who had good knowledge were 71 (48.9%) and 137(94.5%) viewed needle stick injury can transmit HIV virus. 138 (98.1%) agreed that it is their moral responsibility to treat HIV/AIDS patients and risk of HIV transmission is high, hence special precautions have to be followed to treat them. Positive attitude towards HIV/AIDS patients was reported among 129(89%) of students. Chi square test showed an association between knowledge and attitude among study subjects which was statistically significant at p <0.05 level.Conclusions: Active student’s collaboration for treatment compliance of HIV/AIDS patients should be directed towards comprehensive training in the dental colleges which forms a basis for provision of appropriate, optimal dental care improving oral health related quality of life in people living with HIV.

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“…A structured questionnaire was adapted from survey questionnaire used by Patil et al, and Deepak et al, to record the data. 12,13 It comprised of 29 questions, with two sections. First section of 14 questions was on knowledge of HIV/AIDS, modes of HIV transmission, screening tests, lab diagnosis and oral manifestations.…”

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Knowledge and attitude among students towards HIV/AIDS patients at a dental college, Suraram, India

Rani¹,

Dumpala²,

Shyamala³

2017

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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“…The total scores of knowledge and attitude sections had been calculated for each entrant upon 100. Score of 75% and above, between 50-75%, between 25-50% and score less than 25% was considered as excellent, good, moderate and weak knowledge respectively, following the study of Patil et al 7 In case of attitude, the response of the entrants was evaluated on a five-point Likert scale using the choices of strongly disagrees, disagree, neutral, agree, and strongly agree. The score assigned for every answer ranged from 0 to 4, respectively; the maximum score for each section was 44 and the minimum score was 0.…”

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“…The questionnaire was almost same as the one used in a study by Patil et al and in a previous study with modifications, and validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by similar studies. 7 The entrants had the choices of correct and incorrect answers for the knowledge questions. There were 5 correct answers out of 11 questions (correct choice in the questionnaire) and the remaining 6 answers were wrong (incorrect choice in the questionnaire).…”

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Knowledge and beliefs about HIV/AIDS among physiotherapy students

Chugh¹,

Sharma

Dahiya³

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: The HIV epidemic poses significant challenges to the healthcare providers including Physiotherapists. The study aimed at investigating the extent to which Physiotherapy College students know about human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) transmission, infection and prevention, and the transfer of such knowledge to sexual behavior change & and to know whether knowledge has any influence on the attitude and willingness to treat HIV/AIDS patients.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out on 217 physiotherapy students studying at the Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Physiotherapy, Kalkaji, New Delhi, India. The students completed a predesigned self-administered questionnaire assessing the knowledge, attitude and willingness to treat HIV/AIDS patients. The data were analyzed using ANOVA test (all the results are calculated at 1% level of significance) and Pearson correlation test.Results: The total mean knowledge score was 73.23% (good knowledge). There was a significant difference in knowledge among the Fourth-year & first-year students, which was found to be statistically significant (P<0.001%). The study showed that the overall mean attitude score was 62.83% (negative attitude). There was no significant difference in the attitude of the students among the five groups (P>0.001%). Karl Pearson correlation test showed no significant correlation between the knowledge of HIV/AIDS and the attitude of students towards HIV/AIDS patients (P>0.01%).Conclusions: The findings suggest that although the students had adequate knowledge about HIV/AIDS, their attitude towards this group of people was negative. From the study, fear of HIV contagion was observed as a major reason for the negative attitude of students towards HIV/AIDS patients.

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“…There exists, however, a negative attitude among the dental professionals when it comes to managing HIV-infected patients. [6][7][8] A dentist-patient relation free of discrimination along with the use of universal precautions in the dental office is necessary to ensure that the AIDS patients are not reluctant to disclose their health status and feel confident that such disclosure will lead to care best adapted to their condition. 9 The unfounded anxiety and misconceptions associated with the treatment of HIVinfected patients among dental students and professional stems from lack of HIV-related knowledge and can be mitigated with sound understanding of HIV infection.…”

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus-related Understanding among Dental Students and Faculty of an Urban Indian Dental School

Rathod¹,

Mukherjee²,

Thorat³

et al. 2017

IJPCDR

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Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and attitude of dental students towards HIV/AIDS patients: A cross-sectional survey

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Knowledge and attitude among students towards HIV/AIDS patients at a dental college, Suraram, India

Knowledge and attitude among students towards HIV/AIDS patients at a dental college, Suraram, India

Knowledge and beliefs about HIV/AIDS among physiotherapy students

Human Immunodeficiency Virus-related Understanding among Dental Students and Faculty of an Urban Indian Dental School

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