Assessment of Oral Health Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour of Dental Students in Cairo University
- Conditions
- Oral Health Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour of Dental Students
- Interventions
- Other: HU-DBI questionnaire
- Registration Number
- NCT06389370
- Lead Sponsor
- Cairo University
- Brief Summary
The knowledge, behaviour and attitude of oral health professionals reflects their awareness and understanding of oral preventive measures, which will have significant impact on their delivery of public oral health promotion in the future. They are expected to set an example for positive oral health behaviour among other college students, family members and their patients. Various external factors like sociodemographic factors like age, gender, marital state, occupation, and number of family members play a major role in oral hygiene. The relationships between various modifiable factors needs to be assesses in a vast manner.
There were some researches about oral health knowledge, behaviour and attitude in correlation to socio-demographic data, of dental students in other countries, but little was known in Egypt. Dental students are expected to play a critical role in instructing public oral health for improving their patient's, families, and friends. In addition, it may pave the way to develop new programs to encourage needful oral health practices.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 535
- Preclinical and clinical dental students, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University through the academic year 2024-2025.
- Dental students from other universities.
- Internship dental students.
- Post-graduate dental students.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Level 4 HU-DBI questionnaire - Level 2 HU-DBI questionnaire - Level 3 HU-DBI questionnaire - Level 1 HU-DBI questionnaire - Level 5 HU-DBI questionnaire -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Knowledge 1 month Items no. in the questionnaire: 2,8,10,15,19 will be measured dichotomous (Agree/Disagree) with minimum score 0 and maximum score 12
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Attitude and behaviour 1 month Attitude will be items no. 6,11,14 and Behviour will be items 4,9,12,16 will be measured dichotomous (Agree/Disagree) with minimum score 0 and maximum score 12