Knowledge and Attitude of Dental Interns on Child Abuse

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Child Abuse
• Interventions: Other: interactive lecture; Other: online education

• Registration Number: NCT03758794
• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University

Brief Summary

1. Knowledge and attitude of dental interns of the pediatric dental department regarding child abuse recognition and reporting will be assessed 2 times before and after attending one of 2 learning modules ( interactive lecture or online module ) assessment through a questionnaire

2. assessment of the learning experience through a written questionnaire

Detailed Description

1. An introduction with the aim of the study will be given to all the interns of the pediatric dentistry department, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University during a regular scheduled seminar.

2. All interns willing to join the study will be asked to sign an informed consent.

3. A pre-test questionnaire on recognition and reporting of child abuse will be given to the participants

4. The participants will be randomly allocated to 2 study groups Online Group: (this group will receive the educational material through an online educational module ) Lecture Group: (this group will receive the educational material through an interactive lecture based educational module )

5. A post-test same as the pre-test will be used to assess the change in knowledge and attitude regarding child abuse recognition and reporting after the completion of the assigned educational module.

6. All participants that attended both educational modules will be asked to answer a small questionnaire about their perceptions regarding the learning experience.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2018-11
• Study First Submitted: 2018-11-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-11-27
• Study First Posted: 2018-11-29
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-11-29
• Last Update Posted: 2018-12-03
• Study Start: 2019-06-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-12-01
• Study Completion: 2020-05-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 138

Inclusion Criteria

• Dental Interns enrolled in the Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University
• Participants of both genders
• Graduates of any dental school in Egypt

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Exclusion Criteria

• Participants who refused to sign the consent
• Participants who won't be able to have online access to the material

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
interactive lecture module	interactive lecture	interactive lecture
online educational module	online education	online educational using a special link

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Questionnaire on Knowledge and Attitude of child abuse	2 questionnaires each for 15 minutes before and after the learning module	assess the change in knowledge and attitude of dental interns regarding child abuse before and after the educational module assigned to the group same questionnaire will be given pre and post the educational module the questionnaire will include 25 multiple choice questions each question will score 4 with the total questionnaire out of 100 . the questionnaire that will score 75 or less will be considered failed

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Questionnaire on Perception of the learning experience	A 10 minutes written questionnaire	assessment of the dental interns' perception of the educational module the questionnaire will include 7 questions about how strongly or not they preferred the educational module administrated or not evaluation of the answers and comparison between both educational modules according to the % of agreement on each module each question will be analysed with comparison between the % of interns who strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree or strongly disagree