The Evolving Role of Dental Responders on Interprofessional Emergency Response Teams

Colvard, Michael D.; Vesper, Benjamin J.; Kaste, Linda M.; Hirst, Jeremy L.; Peters, David; James, James; Villalobos, Rodrigo; Wipfler, E. John

doi:10.1016/j.cden.2016.05.008

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“…Higher knowledge in the present study may be attributed to the global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the one-region MERS-CoV outbreak in previous studies. The higher knowledge may also be the result of increased opportunities to receive updated information through webinars, social media, and training dentists/ dental academics as rst responders in public health emergencies (27).…”

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Knowledge of Dental Academics about the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey

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Background: COVID-19 is a global pandemic affecting all aspects of life in all countries. We assessed COVID-19 knowledge and associated factors among dental academics in various countries. Method: We invited dental academics to participate in a cross-sectional, multi-country, online survey from March to April 2020. The survey assessed knowledge of COVID-19 regarding the mode of transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, protection, and dental treatment precautions as well as participants’ background variables. The analysis was based on multilevel linear models to assess the association between knowledge and factors at individual levels (personal and professional) and country-level (number of COVID-19 cases/ million population), accounting for random variation among countries. Results: Two thousand forty-five academics from 26 countries participated in the survey (response rate= 14.3%, with 54.7% female and 67% younger than 46 years of age). The mean (SD) knowledge percent score was 73.2% (11.2), and the knowledge of symptoms score was significantly lower than the diagnostic methods score (53.1% and 85.4%). Knowledge was significantly higher among those living with partner/spouse than those living alone (regression coefficient (B)= 0.48); those with PhD than those with BDS (B= 0.48), those seeing 21 to 30 patients daily than those seeing no patients (B= 0.65) and those from countries with a higher number of COVID-19 cases/million population (B= 0.0007). Conclusions: Dental academics had poorer knowledge of COVID-19 symptoms than diagnostic methods. Living arrangements, academic degrees, patient load, and magnitude of epidemic in the country were associated with COVD-19 knowledge among dental academics. COVID-19 training can be designed using these factors to target academics with the greatest need.

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Knowledge of Dental Academics about the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey

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“…International agencies with global reach, such as the WHO, are offering open online courses on COVID-19 in multiple languages to ensure that professionals, such as dental academics, keep up to date with new information (28). The availability of information is especially important in regions where the shortage of health care professionals calls for training dentists/ dental academics as rst responders in public health emergencies (29).…”

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Knowledge of Dental Academics about the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey

Ammar

Aly

Foláyan

et al. 2020

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Background: COVID-19 is a global pandemic affecting all aspects of life in all countries. We assessed COVID-19 knowledge and associated factors among dental academics in 26 countries. Methods: We invited dental academics to participate in a cross-sectional, multi-country, online survey from March to April 2020. The survey collected data on knowledge of COVID-19 regarding the mode of transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, protection, and dental treatment precautions as well as participants’ background variables. Multilevel linear models were used to assess the association between dental academics’ knowledge of COVID-19 and individual level (personal and professional) and country-level (number of COVID-19 cases/ million population) factors accounting for random variation among countries. Results: Two thousand forty-five academics participated in the survey (response rate 14.3%, with 54.7% female and 67% younger than 46 years of age). The mean (SD) knowledge percent score was 73.2 (11.2) %, and the score of knowledge of symptoms was significantly lower than the score of knowledge of diagnostic methods (53.1% and 85.4%; P< 0.0001). Knowledge score was significantly higher among those living with a partner/spouse than among those living alone (regression coefficient (B)= 0.48); higher among those with PhD degrees than among those with Bachelor of Dental Science degrees (B= 0.48); higher among those seeing 21 to 30 patients daily than among those seeing no patients (B= 0.65); and higher among those from countries with a higher number of COVID-19 cases/million population (B= 0.0007). Conclusions: Dental academics had poorer knowledge of COVID-19 symptoms than of COVID-19 diagnostic methods. Living arrangements, academic degrees, patient load, and magnitude of the epidemic in the country were associated with COVD-19 knowledge among dental academics. Training of dental academics on COVID-19 can be designed using these findings to recruit those with the greatest need.

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“…However, dentists could only participate the work of forensic identification of casualties at the scene of the disaster when processing missing people until the idea that taking dentists as first responders within the team was introduced since 1996. 4,5 Gradually, dentists are included in the interprofessional first responder team in some comprehensive response plans, 5,6 and the dental disaster responder role is discussed by more medical experts. 7 An act was even signed into law in countries around the world were at high risk for transmission.…”

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The Role of Dental Professionals in Pandemic Events and Disaster Responses

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 These authors contributed equally to this work [Abstract] In the past 20 years, major public health emergencies and natural disasters such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2003, the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, and the new coronavirus in 2019 (COVID-19), which caused massive casualties, infections and mass panic. These could also result in complex demands of medical resources and information disposal, and a shortage of human resources in emergency response. To address the potential shortage of human resources in emergency response, Chinese dental professionals have done some useful work in these incidents. From the work, deficiencies in emergency response training and in the expansion of rescue capabilities were identified and improvements were made.

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The Evolving Role of Dental Responders on Interprofessional Emergency Response Teams

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Knowledge of Dental Academics about the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey

Knowledge of Dental Academics about the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey

Knowledge of Dental Academics about the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey

The Role of Dental Professionals in Pandemic Events and Disaster Responses

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