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ArticleBMC medical education2020

Knowledge of dental academics about the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country online survey.

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 and 25 more

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Article in BMC medical education, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04791436 (Oral and Olfactory Complications of Recovered COVID-19 Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers.

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NCT04791436 unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

Oral and Olfactory Complications of Recovered COVID-19 Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study

TypeobservationalSponsorUniversity of GiessenRan2021 to 2025Enrolled402ConditionsOral Complication, Dysgeusia, Olfactory DisorderArmsGustatory and olfactory function test, Molecular assessment of saliva
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

35 authors.

Nour AmmarDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. nour.ammar@alexu.edu.eg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7654-2493
Nourhan M AlyDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Morenike O FolayanDepartment of Child Dental Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Simin Z MohebbiResearch Center for Caries Prevention, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Sameh AttiaDepartment of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Hans-Peter HowaldtDepartment of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Sebastian BoettgerDepartment of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Yousef KhaderDepartment of Public Health, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
Diah A MaharaniDepartment of Preventive and Public Health Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia.
Anton RahardjoDepartment of Preventive and Public Health Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia.
Imran KhanDepartment of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5017-412X
Marwa MadiDepartment of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Anas ShamalaDepartment of Preventive and Biomedical Science, College of Dentistry, University of Science & Technology, Sanaa, Yemen.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3439-5453
Ola B Al-BataynehDepartment of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
Maher RashwanCenter for Oral Bioengineering, Barts and the London, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Verica PavlicDepartment of Periodontology and Oral Medicine, Medical Faculty University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Smiljka CicmilDepartment of Oral Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine Foca, University of East Sarajevo, East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Gabriella GalluccioDepartment of Oral and Maxillo Facial Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Antonella PolimeniDepartment of Oral and Maxillo Facial Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Davide MancinoDepartment of Endodontics and Conservative Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Arheiam ArheiamDepartment of Community and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya.
Mai A DamaOrthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Arab American University, Jenin, Palestine.
Myat NyanDepartment of Prosthodontics, University of Dental Medicine, Mandalay, Myanmar.
Prathip PhantumvanitFaculty of Dentistry, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Jin-Bom KimDepartment of Preventive and Community Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
Youn-Hee ChoiDepartment of Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
Jorge L CastilloDepartment of Dentistry for Children and Adolescents, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
Easter JouryCentre for Dental Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Dentistry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Maha M AbdelsalamDepartment of Biomedical Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammad M AlkeshanDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry, Seoul National University Dental Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Iyad HusseinDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7682-5573
Ana P VukovicDepartment of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Alfredo IandoloDepartment of Endodontics, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy.
Arthur M KemoliDepartment of Paediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics, School of Dental Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Maha El TantawiDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCOVID-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.

methodsWe 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.

resultsTwo 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).

conclusionsDental 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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Clinical CompetenceCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Cross-Sectional StudiesDentistryFaculty, DentalFemaleHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansInfection ControlInternationalityLinear ModelsMaleMultivariate AnalysisPandemicsPneumonia, ViralCOVID-19Dental facultyEpidemicsMultilevel analysisSurveys and questionnaires

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