Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey
Abstract 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 M...
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Nour Ammar Nourhan M. Aly Morenike O. Folayan Simin Z. Mohebbi Sameh Attia Hans-Peter Howaldt Sebastian Boettger Yousef Khader Diah A. Maharani Anton Rahardjo Imran Khan Marwa Madi Anas Shamala Ola B. Al-Batayneh Maher Rashwan Verica Pavlic Smiljka Cicmil Gabriella Galluccio Antonella Polimeni Davide Mancino Arheiam Arheiam Mai A. Dama Myat Nyan Prathip Phantumvanit Jin-Bom Kim Youn-Hee Choi Jorge L. Castillo Easter Joury Maha M. Abdelsalam Mohammad M. Alkeshan Iyad Hussein Ana P. Vukovic Alfredo Iandolo Arthur M. Kemoli Maha El Tantawi |
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Nour Ammar Nourhan M. Aly Morenike O. Folayan Simin Z. Mohebbi Sameh Attia Hans-Peter Howaldt Sebastian Boettger Yousef Khader Diah A. Maharani Anton Rahardjo Imran Khan Marwa Madi Anas Shamala Ola B. Al-Batayneh Maher Rashwan Verica Pavlic Smiljka Cicmil Gabriella Galluccio Antonella Polimeni Davide Mancino Arheiam Arheiam Mai A. Dama Myat Nyan Prathip Phantumvanit Jin-Bom Kim Youn-Hee Choi Jorge L. Castillo Easter Joury Maha M. Abdelsalam Mohammad M. Alkeshan Iyad Hussein Ana P. Vukovic Alfredo Iandolo Arthur M. Kemoli Maha El Tantawi Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey BMC Medical Education Dental faculty COVID-19 Epidemics Surveys and questionnaires Multilevel analysis |
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Nour Ammar Nourhan M. Aly Morenike O. Folayan Simin Z. Mohebbi Sameh Attia Hans-Peter Howaldt Sebastian Boettger Yousef Khader Diah A. Maharani Anton Rahardjo Imran Khan Marwa Madi Anas Shamala Ola B. Al-Batayneh Maher Rashwan Verica Pavlic Smiljka Cicmil Gabriella Galluccio Antonella Polimeni Davide Mancino Arheiam Arheiam Mai A. Dama Myat Nyan Prathip Phantumvanit Jin-Bom Kim Youn-Hee Choi Jorge L. Castillo Easter Joury Maha M. Abdelsalam Mohammad M. Alkeshan Iyad Hussein Ana P. Vukovic Alfredo Iandolo Arthur M. Kemoli Maha El Tantawi |
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Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey |
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Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey |
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Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey |
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Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey |
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Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey |
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knowledge of dental academics about the covid-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey |
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Abstract 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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Dental faculty COVID-19 Epidemics Surveys and questionnaires Multilevel analysis |
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doaj-499204c99324434a9d46014cf0a8a2c52020-11-25T04:08:09ZengBMCBMC Medical Education1472-69202020-11-0120111210.1186/s12909-020-02308-wKnowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online surveyNour Ammar0Nourhan M. Aly1Morenike O. Folayan2Simin Z. Mohebbi3Sameh Attia4Hans-Peter Howaldt5Sebastian Boettger6Yousef Khader7Diah A. Maharani8Anton Rahardjo9Imran Khan10Marwa Madi11Anas Shamala12Ola B. Al-Batayneh13Maher Rashwan14Verica Pavlic15Smiljka Cicmil16Gabriella Galluccio17Antonella Polimeni18Davide Mancino19Arheiam Arheiam20Mai A. Dama21Myat Nyan22Prathip Phantumvanit23Jin-Bom Kim24Youn-Hee Choi25Jorge L. Castillo26Easter Joury27Maha M. Abdelsalam28Mohammad M. Alkeshan29Iyad Hussein30Ana P. Vukovic31Alfredo Iandolo32Arthur M. Kemoli33Maha El Tantawi34Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria UniversityDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria UniversityDepartment of Child Dental Health, Obafemi Awolowo UniversityResearch Center for Caries Prevention, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical SciencesDepartment of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Justus-Liebig University GiessenDepartment of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Justus-Liebig University GiessenDepartment of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Justus-Liebig University GiessenDepartment of Public Health, Jordan University of Science and TechnologyDepartment of Preventive and Public Health Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas IndonesiaDepartment of Preventive and Public Health Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas IndonesiaDepartment of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia IslamiaDepartment of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal UniversityDepartment of Preventive and Biomedical Science, College of Dentistry, University of Science & TechnologyDepartment of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Jordan University of Science and TechnologyCenter for Oral Bioengineering, Barts and the London, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of LondonDepartment of Periodontology and Oral Medicine, Medical Faculty University of Banja LukaDepartment of Oral Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine Foca, University of East SarajevoDepartment of Oral and Maxillo Facial Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Sapienza University of RomeDepartment of Oral and Maxillo Facial Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Sapienza University of RomeDepartment of Endodontics and Conservative Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of StrasbourgDepartment of Community and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of BenghaziOrthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Arab American UniversityDepartment of Prosthodontics, University of Dental MedicineFaculty of Dentistry, Thammasat UniversityDepartment of Preventive and Community Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Pusan National UniversityDepartment of Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Kyungpook National UniversityDepartment of Dentistry for Children and Adolescents, Universidad Peruana Cayetano HerediaCentre for Dental Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Dentistry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of LondonDepartment of Biomedical Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal UniversityDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry, Seoul National University Dental HospitalDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health SciencesDepartment of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of BelgradeDepartment of Endodontics, University of SalernoDepartment of Paediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics, School of Dental Sciences, University of NairobiDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria UniversityAbstract 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.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12909-020-02308-wDental facultyCOVID-19EpidemicsSurveys and questionnairesMultilevel analysis |