Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Science, University of Milan, Via Beldiletto 1, I-20142 Milan, Italy.
Private Practitioner, President of the Lombardy Chamber of Dentists, Varese, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 May 28;17(11):3835. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17113835.
This survey assessed the symptoms/signs, protective measures, awareness, and perception levels regarding COVID-19 among dentists in Lombardy, Italy. Moreover, an analysis of the answers gathered in areas with different prevalence of the disease was carried out. All Lombardy's dentists were sent an online ad hoc questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into four domains: personal data, precautionary measures (before patient arrival; in the waiting room; in the operating room), awareness, and perception. Three thousand five hundred ninety-nine questionnaires were analyzed. Five hundred two (14.43%) participants had suffered one or more symptoms referable to COVID-19. Thirty-one subjects were positive to the virus SARS-CoV-2 and 16 subjects developed the disease. Only a small number of dentists ( = 72, 2.00%) were confident of avoiding infection; dentists working in low COVID-19 prevalence areas were more confident than those working in the Milan area and high prevalence area (61.24%, 61.23%, and 64.29%, < 0.01 respectively). The level of awareness was statistically significantly higher ( < 0.01) in the Milan area (71.82%) than in the other areas. This survey demonstrated that dentists in the COVID-19 highest prevalence area, albeit reported to have more symptoms/signs than the rest of the sample, were the ones who adopted several precautionary measures less frequently and were the more confident of avoiding infection.
本研究旨在评估意大利伦巴第大区牙医对 COVID-19 的症状/体征、防护措施、认知和感知水平。此外，还对不同疾病流行地区的答案进行了分析。伦巴第大区的所有牙医都收到了一份在线专门调查问卷。问卷分为四个部分：个人数据、预防措施（患者到达前；在候诊室；在手术室）、认知和感知。共分析了 3599 份问卷。502 名（14.43%）参与者出现了与 COVID-19 相关的一种或多种症状。31 名受试者 SARS-CoV-2 病毒检测呈阳性，16 名受试者确诊患病。只有少数牙医（=72 人，2.00%）对避免感染有信心；在 COVID-19 低流行地区工作的牙医比在米兰地区和高流行地区工作的牙医更有信心（61.24%、61.23%和 64.29%，<0.01 分别）。米兰地区的认知水平明显更高（<0.01）。本研究表明，尽管 COVID-19 高流行地区的牙医报告的症状/体征比其他地区多，但他们采取的预防措施却较少，对避免感染的信心也较低。
