Department of Child Dental Health, Faculty of Dental Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos/Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-araba, Nigeria.
Department of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos/Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-araba, Nigeria.
Eur J Dent Educ. 2021 Nov;25(4):753-761. doi: 10.1111/eje.12654. Epub 2021 Jan 10.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had wide-ranging effects on dental practice across the world. In particular, if has also affected the training of dental residents, who are specialists in training. Thus, the aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, perception and attitude of dental residents in Nigeria to the pandemic and its perceived impact on the dental residency training programme across the country.
This was a cross-sectional study of dental residents in teaching hospitals across Nigeria. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to consenting participants through an online data collection platform (Google forms), between April and June 2020. Data were collected on sociodemographics, knowledge and awareness of coronavirus as well as impact of the pandemic. Data analysis was carried out with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Level of significance was set at p-value < .05.
A total of 104 dental residents participated in the study from ten residency training institutions in the country with a mean age of 35.65 ± 4.8 years. Almost all 98 (94.2%) of the residents showed a good knowledge of COVID 19. About two-thirds, 72 (69.2%) of the participants were mostly worried about COVID-19 affecting their residency training program 72 (69.2%), with their greatest source of worry being the risk of contracting the virus in the dental clinic.
The dental residents had a very good knowledge of the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of COVID-19 and majority of them felt that it would affect their training residency programme.
COVID-19 大流行对全球牙科实践产生了广泛影响。特别是，它还影响了牙科住院医师的培训，他们是专业的培训人员。因此，本研究旨在评估尼日利亚牙科住院医师对大流行的知识、看法和态度，以及他们对全国牙科住院医师培训计划的看法。
这是一项对尼日利亚教学医院牙科住院医师的横断面研究。在 2020 年 4 月至 6 月期间，通过在线数据收集平台（Google 表单）向同意的参与者分发了自我管理的问卷。收集的数据包括社会人口统计学、对冠状病毒的知识和认识以及大流行的影响。使用统计软件包（SPSS）版本 20 进行数据分析。显著性水平设为 p 值<0.05。
共有来自该国十个住院医师培训机构的 104 名牙科住院医师参加了这项研究，平均年龄为 35.65±4.8 岁。几乎所有 98（94.2%）名住院医师对 COVID 19 有很好的了解。大约三分之二，72（69.2%）名参与者主要担心 COVID-19 会影响他们的住院医师培训计划，72（69.2%）名参与者最担心的是在牙科诊所感染病毒的风险。
牙科住院医师对 COVID-19 的流行病学、诊断、预防和治疗有很好的了解，他们大多数人认为这将影响他们的培训计划。
