Pavão Spaulonci Gisele, Salgado de Souza Ricardo, Gallego Arias Pecorari Vanessa, Lauria Dib Luciano
Paulista University (UNIP), Indianópolis, SP, Brazil.
Int J Dent. 2018 Feb 14;2018:9368918. doi: 10.1155/2018/9368918. eCollection 2018.
The present study assessed the level of dentists' knowledge regarding oral cancer in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. A questionnaire was used to compare the level of knowledge among newly graduated and senior clinicians. A total of 20,154 e-mails were correctly delivered to the dentists registered in the database of the Regional Dentistry Council of São Paulo, and 477 (2.36%) responses were received. This sample consisted of 84 newly graduated clinicians and 105 senior clinicians. For the statistical analysis, the chi-square test and the logistic regression analysis were performed with = 0.05, and the results were described herein. According to their knowledge level, the results were statistically different between the groups, since 19% of the newly graduated clinicians were evaluated with knowledge grade A (excellent) in comparison to 6.7% of the senior clinicians. In spite of the results indicated that newly graduated clinicians' knowledge regarding oral cancer was 2.1 times higher, 34.5% of the professionals in this group had regular or poor knowledge on the subject, and several questions relating to clinical characteristics and risk factors indicated that there still exist some knowledge gaps, demonstrating that there is a need for further studies and information activities addressing oral cancer.
本研究评估了巴西圣保罗市牙医对口腔癌的知识水平。采用问卷调查来比较新毕业临床医生和资深临床医生的知识水平。总共向圣保罗地区牙科理事会数据库中登记的牙医正确发送了20154封电子邮件，共收到477份回复（回复率为2.36%）。该样本包括84名新毕业临床医生和105名资深临床医生。进行统计分析时，采用卡方检验和逻辑回归分析，显著性水平α = 0.05，结果如下所述。根据知识水平，两组之间的结果存在统计学差异，因为19%的新毕业临床医生被评估为知识水平为A级（优秀），而资深临床医生中这一比例为6.7%。尽管结果表明新毕业临床医生对口腔癌的知识水平高出2.1倍，但该组中有34.5%的专业人员对该主题的知识掌握一般或较差，一些与临床特征和危险因素相关的问题表明仍存在一些知识空白，这表明有必要针对口腔癌开展进一步研究和信息活动。
