ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2020
Preparedness of dental under-graduate students towards practicing endodontics in rural and remote areas of India.
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backgroundUndergraduate students can provide valuable opinions and suggestions for modifying the educational program for the enhancement of learning. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the preparedness of undergraduate dental students with regard to practice endodontics in the rural and remote areas of India. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe present cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted among dental undergraduates (interns). The survey was conducted among the students of 3 private dental colleges. For the data collection, a close-ended questionnaire was designed to test the knowledge for performing endodontic therapy, root canal therapy (RCT), attitude, and behavior of performing these procedures in the rural set-ups. Unpaired t test and one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare the significant difference based on demographics and Pearson's correlation was applied to find the associations among knowledge, attitude, and behavior of study participants. The level of significance was set at below 0.05.
resultsA total of 79 students participated, out of which 22 respondents were males (27.8%), and 57 were females (72.15%). Overall mean knowledge scores for endodontics was 9.72 ± 2.19, and the scores of female students were slightly higher than males, whereas the attitude and behavior were better in males but there was no statistical significant difference between both the genders (
conclusionThese findings highlights the necessity for taking initiatives to enhance the community-based dental education programs by various dental colleges for improving oral health care access for rural and isolated populations.
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