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COVID-19 vaccination acceptance among dental students and dental practitioners: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Pooled it
- COVID-19 vaccination intention among nursing, medical, and dental students: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Pooled it
- The determinants of COVID-19 vaccination intention: a meta-review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
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- COVID-19 Vaccination in Canadian Dental Schools.Journal of public health dentistry · 2025Article
- Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy and Booster Dose Adherence Among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study in Crete, Greece.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Vaccination rate and symptoms of long COVID among dental teams in Germany.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and vaccine hesitancy amongst dentists regarding COVID-19 vaccination.Clinical and experimental vaccine research · 2025Article
- Comparing COVID-19 literacy and vaccine hesitancy among health care workers, including oral health professionals, in Japan.BDJ open · 2025Article
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- New pedagogical tools for vaccine education: preparing future healthcare workers for the next pandemic.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Cardiometabolic Morbidity (Obesity and Hypertension) in PTSD: A Preliminary Investigation of the Validity of Two Structures of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among medical students, health professionals, and health care workers: an umbrella review.Clinical and experimental vaccine research · 2024Review
- Management of SARS-CoV-2 Prevention Methods in Dental Offices-A Cross-Sectional Study in Bucharest, Romania.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Perceptions and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among health professional students in Australia: a qualitative study.Journal of public health policy · 2024Article
- Attitude towards COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare workers: a cross sectional study from Egypt.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- COVID-19 among Czech Dentistry Students: Higher Vaccination and Lower Prevalence Compared to General Population Counterparts.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Factors Influencing the Choice to Advise for or against COVID-19 Vaccination in the Physicians and Dentists of an Italian Region.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Challenges and Opportunities for Dental Education from COVID-19.Dentistry journal · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundDental practitioners and dental students are classified as high-risk exposure to COVID-19 due to the nature of dental treatments, but evidence of their acceptance towards COVID-19 vaccination is still scarce. Hence, this systemic review aims to critically appraise and analyse the acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination among dental students and dental practitioners. MATERIALS AND
methodsThis review was registered in the PROSPERO database (CRD42021286108) based on PRISMA guidelines. Cross-sectional articles on the dental students' and dental practitioners' acceptance towards COVID-19 vaccine published between March 2020 to October 2021 were searched in eight online databases. The Joanna Briggs Institute critical appraisal tool was employed to analyse the risk of bias (RoB) of each article, whereas the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine recommendation tool was used to evaluate the level of evidence. Data were analysed using the DerSimonian-Laird random effect model based on a single-arm approach.
resultsTen studies were included of which three studies focused on dental students and seven studies focused on dental practitioners. Four studies were deemed to exhibit moderate RoB and the remaining showed low RoB. All the studies demonstrated Level 3 evidence. Single-arm meta-analysis revealed that dental practitioners had a high level of vaccination acceptance (81.1%) than dental students (60.5%). A substantial data heterogeneity was observed with the overall I2 ranging from 73.65% and 96.86%. Furthermore, subgroup analysis indicated that dental practitioners from the Middle East and high-income countries showed greater (p < 0.05) acceptance levels, while meta-regression showed that the sample size of each study had no bearing on the degree of data heterogeneity.
conclusionsDespite the high degree of acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among dental practitioners, dental students still demonstrated poor acceptance. These findings highlighted that evidence-based planning with effective approaches is warranted to enhance the knowledge and eradicate vaccination hesitancy, particularly among dental students.
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