Knowledge of Dental Academics About the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey

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Ammar N¹ ; Aly NM¹ ; Folayan MO² ; Mohebbi SZ^{3, 4} ; Attia S⁵ ; Howaldt HP⁵ ; Boettger S⁵ ; Khader Y⁶ ; Maharani DA⁷ ; Rahardjo A⁷ ; Khan I⁸ ; Madi M⁹ ; Shamala A¹⁰ ; Albatayneh OB¹¹ Show All Authors

Ammar N¹
Aly NM¹
Folayan MO²
Mohebbi SZ^{3, 4}
Attia S⁵
Howaldt HP⁵
Boettger S⁵
Khader Y⁶
Maharani DA⁷
Rahardjo A⁷
Khan I⁸
Madi M⁹
Shamala A¹⁰
Albatayneh OB¹¹
Rashwan M^{12, 13}
Pavlic V¹⁴
Cicmil S¹⁵
Galluccio G¹⁶
Polimeni A¹⁶
Mancino D^{17, 18}
Arheiam A¹⁹
Dama MA²⁰
Nyan M²¹
Phantumvanit P²²
Kim JB²³
Choi YH²⁴
Castillo JL²⁵
Joury E²⁶
Abdelsalam MM²⁷
Alkeshan MM²⁸
Hussein I²⁹
Vukovic AP³⁰
Iandolo A³¹
Kemoli AM³²
El Tantawi M¹

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1. Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
2. Department of Child Dental Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
3. Research Center for Caries Prevention, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4. Community Oral Health Department, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5. Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
6. Department of Public Health, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
7. Department of Preventive and Public Health Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
8. Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
9. Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
10. Department of Preventive and Biomedical Science, College of Dentistry, University of Science & Technology, Sanaa, Yemen
11. Department of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
12. Center for Oral Bioengineering, Barts and the London, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
13. Department of Conservative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
14. Department of Periodontology and Oral Medicine, Medical Faculty University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
15. Department of Oral Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine Foca, University of East Sarajevo, East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
16. Department of Oral and Maxillo Facial Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
17. Department of Endodontics and Conservative Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 67000, France
18. Department of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, INSERM UMR_S 1121, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, 67000, France
19. Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya
20. Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Arab American University, Jenin, Palestine
21. Department of Prosthodontics, University of Dental Medicine, Mandalay, Myanmar
22. Faculty of Dentistry, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
23. Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University, Yangsan, South Korea
24. Department of Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
25. Department of Dentistry for Children and Adolescents, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
26. Centre 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, United Kingdom
27. Department of Biomedical Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
28. Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Seoul National University Dental Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
29. Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
30. Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
31. Department of Endodontics, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
32. Department of Paediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics, School of Dental Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Source: BMC Medical Education Published:2020

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. © 2020, The Author(s).

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MLA	Ammar N, et al.. "Knowledge of Dental Academics About the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey." BMC Medical Education, vol. 20, no. 1, 2020, pp. -.
APA	Ammar N, Aly NM, Folayan MO, Mohebbi SZ, Attia S, Howaldt HP, Boettger S, Khader Y, Maharani DA, Rahardjo A, Khan I, Madi M, Shamala A, Albatayneh OB, Rashwan M, Pavlic V, Cicmil S, Galluccio G, Polimeni A, ... El Tantawi M (2020). Knowledge of Dental Academics About the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey. BMC Medical Education, 20(1), -.
Chicago	Ammar N, Aly NM, Folayan MO, Mohebbi SZ, Attia S, Howaldt HP, Boettger S, et al.. "Knowledge of Dental Academics About the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey." BMC Medical Education 20, no. 1 (2020): -.
Harvard	Ammar N et al. (2020) 'Knowledge of Dental Academics About the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey', BMC Medical Education, 20(1), pp. -.
Vancouver	Ammar N, Aly NM, Folayan MO, Mohebbi SZ, Attia S, Howaldt HP, et al.. Knowledge of Dental Academics About the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey. BMC Medical Education. 2020;20(1):-.
BibTex	@article{ author = {Ammar N and Aly NM and Folayan MO and Mohebbi SZ and Attia S and Howaldt HP and Boettger S and Khader Y and Maharani DA and Rahardjo A and Khan I and Madi M and Shamala A and Albatayneh OB and Rashwan M and Pavlic V and Cicmil S and Galluccio G and Polimeni A and Mancino D and Arheiam A and Dama MA and Nyan M and Phantumvanit P and Kim JB and Choi YH and Castillo JL and Joury E and Abdelsalam MM and Alkeshan MM and Hussein I and Vukovic AP and Iandolo A and Kemoli AM and El Tantawi M}, title = {Knowledge of Dental Academics About the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Online Survey}, journal = {BMC Medical Education}, volume = {20}, number = {1}, pages = {-}, year = {2020} }
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