Bagher Sara M, Sabbagh Heba J, Aldajani Mariam, Al-Ghamdi Nouf, Zaatari Ghufran
Department of Pediatric Dentistry at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Dentist at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
J Int Soc Prev Community Dent. 2019 Jan-Feb;9(1):83-88. doi: 10.4103/jispcd.JISPCD_338_18. Epub 2019 Feb 14.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of Restorative, Orthodontic, and Pediatric Dentistry Departments' members at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, toward bisphenol A (BPA) dental exposure.
A survey was pretested for face and content validity. It included ten knowledge-, four attitude-, and five behavior-based items. The collected data were analyzed using Windows SPSS software version 22 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). Significant levels were set at 0.05.
A total of 109 members participated in this study. Most of them (80 [73.4]) had never attended a lecture or read an article on BPA dental exposure previously. The restorative department members showed the highest (mean ± standard deviation score) in knowledge-based questions (3.32 ± 3.323), and those who reported that they had heard of BPA previously, read an article, or attended a lecture on BPA received significantly higher mean knowledge scores ( < 0.0001). The pediatric dentistry departments' members showed significantly higher agreements to attitude questions. Only ten participants (9.2%) followed the recommended guidelines to reduce patients' exposure to BPA during the application of BPA-containing dental materials.
Reading an article or attending a lecture on BPA significantly improves the knowledge scores. Therefore, there is a need to increase the awareness on BPA dental exposure among different departments' members in KAU to ensure that BPA exposure to patients is minimized and to ensure the spread of this knowledge to the dental students.
本研究旨在评估沙特阿拉伯吉达阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王大学（KAU）修复牙科、正畸牙科和儿童牙科部门成员对双酚A（BPA）口腔暴露的知识、态度和行为。
一项调查进行了表面效度和内容效度的预测试。它包括十个基于知识、四个基于态度和五个基于行为的项目。使用Windows SPSS软件22版（美国纽约州阿蒙克市IBM公司）对收集的数据进行分析。显著性水平设定为0.05。
共有109名成员参与了本研究。他们中的大多数人（80人[73.4%]）此前从未参加过关于BPA口腔暴露的讲座或阅读过相关文章。修复牙科部门成员在基于知识的问题上得分最高（平均±标准差分数为3.32±3.323），那些报告此前听说过BPA、阅读过相关文章或参加过关于BPA的讲座的成员获得的平均知识得分显著更高（<0.0001）。儿童牙科部门成员对态度问题的认同度显著更高。在应用含BPA的牙科材料时，只有十名参与者（9.2%）遵循了推荐指南以减少患者接触BPA。
阅读关于BPA的文章或参加相关讲座能显著提高知识得分。因此，有必要提高KAU不同部门成员对BPA口腔暴露的认识，以确保将患者接触BPA的情况降至最低，并确保将此知识传播给牙科学生。
