Markovic Nina, Muratbegovic Amra Arslanagic, Kobaslija Sedin, Bajric Elmedin, Selimovic-Dragas Mediha, Huseinbegovic Amina, Cuković-Bagic Ivana
Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
School of Dental Medicine of the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Mater Sociomed. 2015 Dec;27(6):372-5. doi: 10.5455/msm.2015.27.372-375.
The aim of this study was to assess knowledge and attitude of dentists in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) regarding signs and symptoms of child abuse and neglect (CAN), reporting procedure and level of education.
Data were collected through a self-administrated structured questionnaire adopted and modified from previous studies. It was administrated to 300 dentists out of which a total number of 210 subjects were in final sample for statistical analyses. Response rate was seventy percent. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis H test were used to analyze statistical differences in responses. The level of significance was set at p<0.05.
Dentists in BH are very rarely provided (80%) with training related to recognition and reporting of CAN. Sixty six percent of dentists had never suspected CAN in their practice. Only nine percent of dentists would report suspicious of CAN. Prevailing reasons for not reporting suspected case of CAN was lack of knowledge of the reporting procedure (43%), and combination of indicated answers that never had a case and lack of knowledge about the procedure (31%).
Results of this study suggest that dentists need an effective education to increase their knowledge and awareness of all aspects of CAN.
本研究旨在评估波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那（波黑）牙医对虐待和忽视儿童（CAN）的体征和症状、报告程序及教育水平的了解情况和态度。
通过采用并修改自先前研究的自填式结构化问卷收集数据。该问卷发放给300名牙医，其中共有210名受试者纳入最终样本进行统计分析。回复率为70%。采用描述性统计、卡方检验和克鲁斯卡尔 - 沃利斯H检验分析回复中的统计学差异。显著性水平设定为p<0.05。
波黑的牙医很少（80%）接受与识别和报告CAN相关的培训。66%的牙医在执业过程中从未怀疑过CAN。只有9%的牙医会报告可疑的CAN病例。不报告可疑CAN病例的主要原因是缺乏报告程序的知识（43%），以及从未遇到过此类病例且缺乏程序知识这两个选项组合的回答（31%）。
本研究结果表明，牙医需要接受有效的教育，以提高他们对CAN各方面的知识和认识。
