Awareness Regarding Practices Related to Infection Control among Dental Students in Patna City (original) (raw)
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2014
Introduction: CDC (Center for Disease Control & prevention), who proposed Universal Precautions, states that "Treat each patient as potentially risk". Therefore, it is our basic responsibility to control the spread of such devastating diseases by following infection control measures. Aims & Objectives: To assess the various personal protective measures adapted by dental practitioners in Agra city and to know how many dentists are vaccinated against Hepatitis B for prevention of the spread of this disease. Materials and Methods: The study included response using questionnaire from 150 dental practitioners from Agra city, chosen by random sampling. Questions were related to their personal protective measures employed by the dental practitioners and information about their prophylaxis against Hepatitis B was also obtained. Results: Among the dental practitioners, 80% were males. Approximately 82% of the dental practitioners were vaccinated against HBV. Only 6% followed the CDC recommendations for hand washing practices, and about 64% dental practitioners gave wrong answers related to droplet infection. Conclusion: Lack of awareness regarding universal precautions proposed by CDC is observed among dental practitioners. There is a great need for creating awareness among dental practitioners.
International Journal of Pharmacy, 2014
The rational of this study was to determine the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice in regard to standards isolation, precautions among dentistry students in different dental colleges of Karachi so that steps could be taken to enhance the standards of dental practice and reduces the probabilities of cross infection. The main objective of the study was to determine Knowledge, Attitude and Practices in regard to infection control related precautions among the dental students and house officers in the dental colleges of Karachi and to find out association between KMDC (Karachi Medical & Dental College) and other dental colleges for dental hygiene practices. The study has been conducted in five dental collages of Karachi, 409 students of third year, final year and internees were recruited to solve the questionnaire for the duration of December 2011 to January 2012. Sample size is determined, based upon WHO criteria and the statistical analysis was performed for mean, standard deviation and age ranges. Chi Sq. was applied to determine the significance at P value <0.05. Findings of study revealed that majority of students are female in dental colleges of Karachi, among them, 77.70% believe that rate of transmission of Hepatitis-B is high while 12.30% rated AIDS as the highly transmissible infection. During the practice or trainings 24% of students and interns use goggles while 72% use detergents/antiseptics to wash their hands and 8% do not bend the needles after use. Pre dental examinations washing of hands were lacks by 5% of students and internees while almost same proportion (5%) do not get vaccination against Hepatitis-B infection. The study reveals that, it is quite evident that most of the students and internees have good knowledge of infection control in the dental clinics and also using personal procreative equipments. They are practicing the standard infection control methods. The attitude towards infection control was a little poor in some of the respondent. A large number of the respondent did not use goggles for droplet splash in the dental clinic and no significant association was found between KMDC and other dental colleges regarding dental hygiene practices.
2018
Background: Dentistry is predominantly a field of surgery, involving exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials and therefore requires a high standard of infection control and safety practice in controlling cross-contamination and occupational exposures to blood-and saliva-borne diseases. Aim: To assess the knowledge, attitude, and behaviour of dental technicians toward infection control practised by them in dental laboratories in and around Hyderabad, India. Materials and Methods: We carried out a cross sectional survey of dental laboratories in dental colleges of South India. A self administered questionnaire containing seven closed ended and nine open ended questions was randomly distributed to laboratory technicians in 50 laboratories in and around Hyderabad, India, regarding their attitude and knowledge of infection control measures like the use of gloves, protective eyeglasses, receiving of impression in laboratory, disinfection of impression etc. Results: The response showed that most of the dental technicians receive 25-35 (35%) in a week. We found that most of the laboratory attendants carry impressions in plastic bag (90%) to the laboratory. Only 30% of the dental technicians said that they were aware of infection control protocol. Only 12 % of the technicians told that they receive impressions while wearing gloves. Conclusion: We concluded that most of the dental technicians were not aware of the basic infection control protocols.
ODONTO : Dental Journal
Background: Dentist is one of the professions that are vulnerable to the transmission of infectious diseases there is hence it requires proper infection control. The educational hospital is responsible for carrying out infection control training that includes appropriate standard precautions for dental students before carrying out educational activities in the hospital so that students are ready to treat patients. This study aims to determine the knowledge of interns and residents at Universitas Padjadjaran Dental Hospital on infection prevention and control. Method: This is a quantitative descriptive study with a cross-sectional approach using data from the training section of Universitas Padjadjaran Dental Hospital from August 2020 to February 2021. Determination of the number of samples taken using the Isaac and Michael formula and using a proportionate stratified random sampling technique. Result: The average value of interns and residents are the same, which is 71, seen also from the average percentage of those who answered correctly on the questionnaire which showed similar results between interns and residents. Conclusion: Knowledge on infection prevention and control among interns and residents are the same, with knowledge classified in the sufficient category.
Govarî Hewlêr bo-zanistî pizîşkî didan/Erbil dental journal, 2024
Background: Infections acquired in healthcare facilities have become an increasingly challenging issue worldwide. The prevention of infectious diseases is a critical issue since healthcare workers develop acquired infections while providing services to patients. However, infection prevention and control are challenging, especially in healthcare facilities. Objective: To asses knowledge, attitude and practice of cross infection control among dental students at the College of Dentistry, Hawler Medical University. Material and Method: A survey was conducted to obtain information regarding knowledge, attitude, and practice with recommended infection control guidelines. The questionnaire contained three parts (knowledge, attitude, and practice) and was distributed to the participants. Result: Total number of participants was 135, (73) 5th year dental students, and (62) 4th year, the mean age of participants was (20-23) years, 96 % had correct knowledge about infection control, 93 % had a correct practice, but unfortunately 48 % had low attitude. Conclusion: The majority of dental students had a good knowledge and correct practice, but less about their attitude in infection control. Therefore, regular training that contain educational program should be supported to maintain the highest level of attitude.
2014
A cross sectional study was conducted among dental students of Dow International Dental College (DUHS) to find out their level of knowledge, attitude, and practice about infection control measures. If any significant linear correlation was present between the knowledge, attitudes and practice, their scores were observed. Statistical analyses for knowledge, attitude and practice descriptive statistics were computed using the SPSS software for Windows version 17. ANOVA was used to calculate p-value of knowledge, attitudes, and practice values. Pearson's test was used to compute the correlation among knowledge, attitudes, and practice scores. A p value of ≤0.05 was considered to be significant for all statistical analyses. Mean scores of knowledge, attitudes, and practice were 9.66 (1.38), 6.98 (1.36), and 10.16 (1.42) respectively. Significant differences between the study groups were noticed for means of practice scores (≤0.01) and significant linear correlation was observed between knowledge and practice scores (p≤0.01). Among knowledge-attitude and attitude-practice scores no differences were seen. The knowledge and attitude of dental students about cross infection control is enhancing but there is still some room for developing a firm attitude. This attitude can be improved by refreshing and upgrading their knowledge by obtaining continues education regarding universal infection control measures through arranging sessions or lectures for students of each professional year and keeping all the vaccination especially Hepatitis B mandatory for students prior to take admission in any dental institution.
Awareness And Behavior Of Dental Students Towards Infection Control Measures In Karachi, Pakistan
The journal of Bahria University Medical and Dental College, 2018
Introduction: A dental operatory is an area for easy and quick transmission of infections. Infections like TB, Hep B, Hep C, HSV and HIV can be readily transmitted among patients and to the operating staff if proper measures are not taken. The aim of the present study was to assess self-perceived knowledge and practices of the dental students and graduates about infection control measures. Method: The study was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire, comprising of 12 basic questions to judge the knowledge and practices of students in the dental OPDs. A total of 360 dental students and house officers participated voluntarily in the survey. Results: The results showed that there did not exist sufficient knowledge among dental students and fresh dental graduates about infection control measures. Conclusion: There is thus a dire need to fulfill the gap between the ideal practices protocol knowledge and practices that are being followed by the students.
Journal of investigative and clinical dentistry, 2017
The aim of the present study was to assess awareness of the risk of cross-infection and infection-control measures practiced in dental clinics for patients attending the outpatient dental department (OPD) at University Dental Hospital, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 427 patients who attended the OPD clinics at University Dental Hospital. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to collect data, and chi-squared-test of association was applied where appropriate. Most patients (75.2%) were aware that there was a chance of infection transmission during dental treatments, and nearly 72% stated that wearing gloves and masks by their dentists was important during dental treatment. Awareness was higher among patients with a higher educational level. Participants revealed their fear of potential transmission of blood-borne pathogens in the dental setting. Awareness of sterilization of dental instruments was poor. The public should b...
2020
This study consisted of 151 students of 3 rd year and final year. Questionnaire was containing 21 questions related to vaccination status, barrier techniques infection control practices and awareness. The questionnaire was distributed through Google forms to the students after taking consent from them. The data was analyzed and tabulated through SPSS version 23. All of the participants responded to the questionnaire (response rate =100%). The compliance for the hepatitis B vaccination was slightly low in the students' (79.9%), however compliance with the use of protective barriers was high with the exception of protective eye wear which was only 23.8%. the score for knowledge, attitude and practice of 3 rd year students was higher than final year students. The result of this study was not very satisfactory. More knowledge about infection control measures should be provided to the students, moreover efforts are needed to improve the attitude and practice of the dental students towards infection control at Islamic International Dental Hospital, Islamabad. Further education may be appropriate in number of areas such as wearing protective eye wear and vaccination against Hepatitis B.
Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, 2022
Objectives: To evaluate the knowledge attitude and practices of dental assistants regarding hand hygiene and cross infection control in public and private dental institutes. Methods: Survey was carried out on 240 subjects working in five private and two public dental institutes using online questionnaires developed by the authors, and distributed via E-mail and WhatsApp. The target population were dental assistants and hygienists. Survey included a confidentiality and consent statement. Data was analyzed using the IBM SPSS version 20. Results: There were 240 respondents and majority were male. 71.3% of the participants received formal training in hand hygiene. 51.7% were aware of the presence of cross infection manual at workplace, however, fewer were aware of it contents. There was a significant difference between auxiliaries of private and public dental institutes when it comes to wearing gloves without washing hands, usage of alcohol rub and following recommended steps of hand washing. The auxiliaries of public institutes were performing hand washing before touching the patients only. Majority of the respondents especially from public institutes (38.3%) believe that hand should be dried using paper towel. Conclusion: Auxiliaries of private institutes were more aware about hand hygiene. Public institutes' auxiliaries were lacking in knowledge and practice especially when it comes to usage of alcohol-based rub, washing hands before wearing gloves and performing hand hygiene before and after touching the patients. Regular workshop and courses should be done to keep their adherence to quality hand hygiene especially in public institutes.