Knowledge, attitude, and practice of infection control among dental students in King Khalid University, Abha

Assiri, Khalil Ibrahim; Naheeda,; Ibrahim, Mohammed; Alam, Tanveer; Asif, Shaik Mohammed

doi:10.4103/jioh.jioh_6_18

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“…A self-administrated questionnaire was used, the questionnaire was checked for validity and reliability [22]. An initial pilot study was conducted using a convenient sample of dental, dental technology, and dental hygiene students (n = 10) to ensure that the questions were clear, understandable, practical, and valid.…”

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Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Cross Infection Control Among Students of Dentistry, Dental Hygiene, and Dental Technology in Jordan

Bakri¹,

Omari²,

Ananzeh³

et al. 2021

TODENTJ

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Background: Cross infection control, to reduce the incidence of disease transmission between patients and dental team personnel, is an integral part of good clinical practice. Objective: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice of cross infection control among dental, dental hygiene, and dental technology students. Methods: Data were collected by a self-administrated questionnaire assessing knowledge, attitude, and practice of infection control measures. The questionnaire was published electronically to final year dental, dental hygiene, and dental technology students through student’s official social media groups . Results: Statistically significant difference was found in relation to students' specialization (p-value ≤ 0.05). None of the dental hygienist students had a negative attitude about infection control, while most of participants with a negative attitude were dental technology students (84.6%). No statistically significant difference (p>0.05) was found between groups in regard to cross-infection knowledge, where the level of knowledge ranged from moderate to good. Conclusion: Good knowledge, attitude, and practice were reported for dental and dental hygiene students, while good knowledge with a negative attitude was found amongst dental technology students. Specialty affected the practice of infection control measures, yet gender was not a significant variable. Improvement of the university curriculum, particularly for dental technology students, to increase awareness and knowledge of cross infection control is highly recommended.

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Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Cross Infection Control Among Students of Dentistry, Dental Hygiene, and Dental Technology in Jordan

Bakri¹,

Omari²,

Ananzeh³

et al. 2021

TODENTJ

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“…education, providing adequate knowledge and attitudes related to infection control procedures, can play a significant role in the training of dentists and motivate them to follow standards of infection control practice while treating their patients [8]. In spite of infection control guidelines already established in dental schools, improving compliance with infection control recommendations remains a major challenge [9].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Saudi Arabia, the previous published researches on infection control compliance of dental students in College of Dentistry, Jazan [13], King Khalid University, Abha [9], and King Saud University, Riyadh [14], [15] reported that their compliance was satisfactory but more efforts are recommended to improve it. However, all these researches were based on subjective self-reported data through answering questionnaire which according to Ayub et al [16] assumptions could not accurately reflect the actual compliance and might resulted in overestimation of compliance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Adherence of Umm Al-Qura University Dental Students to Infection Control Guidelines: A Four Year – Auditing Report

Bukhari

Ahmed

Afifi

2020

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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BACKGROUND: Infection control auditing is an objective quality improvement process that evaluates current practice against already available standards and guidelines. AIM: The aim of the study was to assess the adherence of Umm Al-Qura University dental students to infection control guidelines by 4 years’ clinical auditing. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional observational study of audit checklists (n = 40725) at Dental Teaching Hospital, Umm Al-Qura University, throughout 4 academic years (2015–2018) was performed. Checklists item, total category, and overall adherence percentages were calculated based on recorded observations. The difference in adherence and violations was assessed using generalized estimating equations with the identity logit and an autoregressive correlation matrix. RESULTS: Overall adherence to all checklist categories was high except for 10–45% got out of the cubicle with used gloves and 15–60% not probably wore mask outside the cubicle. Overall violations among females were highly statistically significant lower than males (OR: 0.926, p < 0.01) and 4th grade were statistically significant lower than among 6th grade (OR: 0.932, p < 0.05) while no statistically significant difference in overall violation among 5th grade in comparison to 6th grade. However, along the 4 years of the study, statistically significant difference in overall violations was observed. CONCLUSION: Adherence of Umm Al-Qura University dental students to infection control guidelines in the past 4 years remained consistently high except for attitude in the clinic station outside the cubicle which improved along study years. Our results highlight the importance of continuous monitoring through clinical audits together with educational programs and counseling with students violating infection control policies to make corrective actions.

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“…The protection of health workers became imperative, especially with the rise of of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s [22]. …”

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“…In 1996, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) adopted the term “standard precautions” to generate broader understanding and awareness of prevention and transmission of infection. In 2003, the CDC published “Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings”, which included standard precautions to ensure safe working environments and prevent cross-infection among DHCW and their patients, and in 2016 the CDC published “Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care” [22], [23], [24], [25]. …”

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Awareness and compliance of dental students and interns toward infection control at Riyadh Elm University

Binalrimal

AlDrees²,

AlWehaibi³

et al. 2019

GMS Hygiene and Infection Control; 14:Doc10

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Knowledge, attitude, and practice of infection control among dental students in King Khalid University, Abha

Cited by 13 publications

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Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Cross Infection Control Among Students of Dentistry, Dental Hygiene, and Dental Technology in Jordan

Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Cross Infection Control Among Students of Dentistry, Dental Hygiene, and Dental Technology in Jordan

Adherence of Umm Al-Qura University Dental Students to Infection Control Guidelines: A Four Year – Auditing Report

Awareness and compliance of dental students and interns toward infection control at Riyadh Elm University

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