Knowledge and Attitude about Dental Trauma among House Officers of Dental Surgery
Rimsha Bashir, Muhammad Jamal, Zaynab Qureshi, Rashid Tayyab Khalily, Zainab Niazi, Salman Daud
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ABSTRACT
Background: Dental trauma is trauma of teeth, periodontium and surrounding tissues.
It occurs frequently in children and young adults. Traumatic injuries are one
of the commonest injuries, it occurs at schools, homes, accidents or sports.
The most common site of dental trauma is maxillary central incisors.
Aim: To assess
the knowledge and attitude about dental trauma among house officers of dental
surgery.
Methods: This
cross-sectional survey was performed on house officers from four dental
teaching hospitals of Islamabad, affiliated with Islamabad Medical and Dental
College, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Rawal Institute of Health
Sciences and Riphah University from September 2020 to February 2021. A
self-administered questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge and attitude
of house officers about dental trauma. Those who were not willing to
participate and incompletely filled questionnaires were excluded. IBM-SPSS
version 22 was used for data entry and descriptive analysis.
Conclusion: The
percentage of house officers with good knowledge and attitude about dental
trauma was relatively high and the percentage of the ones with poor knowledge
was more or less the same.
Keywords:
Attitude; Dentistry; House Officer; Knowledge; Surgery; Trauma.