Department of Nursing, Fukuoka Nursing College, 2-15-1 Tamura, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka, 814-0193, Japan.
Section of Geriatric Dentistry, Department of General Dentistry, Fukuoka Dental College, 2-15-1 Tamura, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka, 814-0193, Japan.
BMC Oral Health. 2021 Apr 12;21(1):188. doi: 10.1186/s12903-021-01554-8.
Oral healthcare education for health professional students is important to promote collaborative oral healthcare practice among health professionals. The purpose of this follow-up, cross-sectional study was to investigate attitudes, awareness, and perceptions regarding oral healthcare among dental and nursing students and to compare them both between baseline and the completion of the education programme and between dental and nursing students to identify problems with oral healthcare programmes in dental education.
The subjects included 88 dental and 119 nursing students. The dental students participated in geriatric and preventive dentistry courses for oral healthcare education. The nursing students participated in independent oral healthcare courses comprising 45 h of training with case-based learning and were taught and instructed by multiple health professionals, including dentists. Questionnaires were distributed to the participants to compare attitudes, awareness, and perceptions regarding oral healthcare between baseline and the completion of the education programme and between dental and nursing students. A chi-square test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and Mann-Whitney U test were used to compare the data.
The data of 48 (28 male and 20 female) dental students and 103 (9 male and 94 female) nursing students who completed the questionnaires both at baseline and after the education programme were used for the comparisons. After the education programme, more than 90% of the students were interested in oral healthcare practice; hoped to practise oral healthcare post-qualification; and perceived oral healthcare to be effective for preventing dental caries, periodontal diseases, and aspiration pneumonia. These attitudes and perceptions were statistically significantly improved after the education. However, the level of awareness of oral healthcare and the level of perception of the importance of collaboration with healthcare workers in oral healthcare practice after education were lower in the dental students than in the nursing students. Multi-professional oral healthcare education with case-based learning has the potential to improve awareness of oral healthcare and perceptions of the importance of collaborative oral healthcare practice.
对医学生进行口腔保健教育对于促进卫生专业人员之间的协作口腔保健实践非常重要。本后续、横断面研究的目的是调查口腔保健教育中牙科和护理专业学生的态度、意识和看法，并比较他们在基线和教育计划完成时以及牙科和护理学生之间的差异，以确定牙科教育中口腔保健计划存在的问题。
研究对象包括 88 名牙科学生和 119 名护理学生。牙科学生参加了老年和预防牙科课程，以接受口腔保健教育。护理学生参加了独立的口腔保健课程，包括 45 小时的基于案例的学习培训，由包括牙医在内的多名卫生专业人员进行教学和指导。向参与者分发问卷，以比较基线和教育计划完成时以及牙科和护理学生之间对口腔保健的态度、意识和看法。使用卡方检验、Wilcoxon 符号秩检验和 Mann-Whitney U 检验比较数据。
使用了完成基线和教育计划后问卷的 48 名（28 名男性和 20 名女性）牙科学生和 103 名（9 名男性和 94 名女性）护理学生的数据进行比较。教育计划后，超过 90%的学生对口腔保健实践感兴趣；希望在毕业后从事口腔保健工作；并认为口腔保健对预防龋齿、牙周病和吸入性肺炎有效。这些态度和看法在教育后有统计学上的显著改善。然而，在教育后，牙科学生对口腔保健的认识水平和对与医疗保健工作者合作进行口腔保健实践的重要性的认识水平低于护理学生。基于案例的多专业口腔保健教育有可能提高对口腔保健的认识和对协作口腔保健实践重要性的认识。
