Nallamothu Raghuveer, Aljohani Dareen Dhaifullah, Al-Ramadhan Maryam Ali, Eshag Abdullah Mohammed, Bakulka Ghufran Abdullah, Hasanian Raghad Zaki, Abduljabar Aeshah Hassan, Pullishery Fawaz
Department of Orthodontics, Dentistry Program, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Dental Intern, Dentistry Program, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2021 Nov;13(Suppl 2):S975-S979. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_146_21. Epub 2021 Nov 10.
With COVID-19 announced as a global pandemic, a countrywide lockdown was executed in many countries, including the Middle East. With no foregoing warning or expectation, orthodontic treatments were temporarily canceled as dental clinics and colleges were indefinitely closed. To the best of our knowledge, no study addresses the orthodontist perspective in such testing times, where they are entirely restricted to the confines of their homes. The study aims to assess the impact of the COVID-19-related lockdown on orthodontists and orthodontic postgraduate students' treatment and psychology.
The survey participants consist of 315 orthodontists and orthodontic postgraduate residents from different Middle East countries. A pretested self-administered questionnaire was sent to the consenting participants through an online data collection platform (Google forms), covering participants' sociodemographics and participants' perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A majority of the participants (87.61%) stated that the pandemic would permanently change their way of practicing orthodontics and also will lead to the reduction in the number of orthodontic patients in the future (78.73%), and a significant number of orthodontists (67.61%) has an opinion that the pandemic will not affect the viability of their profession. The majority of the respondents (88.57%) commented about the negative economic impact of COVID-19 on their income, and regarding the effect of COVID-19 on psychosocial well-being, 73.01% had experienced anxiety and depression, 88.25% were excited about the future of the profession, and 68.57% enjoyed the life with their family due to lockdown, and when asked about their social life with the family and friends, majority of the participants (66.34%) had an opinion that it has improved due to the increased free time.
Most of the respondents reported perceived economic, psychosocial, and social impacts due to the pandemic.
随着新冠疫情被宣布为全球大流行，包括中东地区在内的许多国家都实施了全国范围的封锁。在没有任何预先警告或预期的情况下，由于牙科诊所和院校无限期关闭，正畸治疗被暂时取消。据我们所知，尚无研究探讨正畸医生在这种艰难时期的观点，此时他们完全被困在家中。本研究旨在评估与新冠疫情相关的封锁对正畸医生和正畸研究生治疗及心理的影响。
调查参与者包括来自中东不同国家的315名正畸医生和正畸研究生。通过在线数据收集平台（谷歌表单）向同意参与的参与者发送一份经过预测试的自填式问卷，内容涵盖参与者的社会人口统计学信息以及他们对新冠疫情的感知影响。
大多数参与者（87.61%）表示，疫情将永久性地改变他们的正畸治疗方式，并且未来正畸患者数量也会减少（78.73%），相当数量的正畸医生（67.61%）认为疫情不会影响他们职业的生存能力。大多数受访者（88.57%）提到新冠疫情对其收入有负面经济影响，关于新冠疫情对心理社会幸福感的影响，73.01%的人经历过焦虑和抑郁，88.25%的人对该职业的未来感到兴奋，68.57%的人因封锁而享受与家人在一起的生活，当被问及与家人和朋友的社交生活时，大多数参与者（66.34%）认为由于空闲时间增加，社交生活有所改善。
大多数受访者报告了疫情带来的经济、心理社会和社交方面的感知影响。
