Sharka Rayan, San Diego Jonathan, Nasseripour Melanie, Banerjee Avijit
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Centre for Dental Education, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
J Dent Educ. 2023 Jan;87(1):118-129. doi: 10.1002/jdd.13085. Epub 2022 Aug 29.
This study explored how dental students and dental professionals perceive risks of using digital and social media (DSM) in a dental professional context and validated a questionnaire to measure DSM perceived risks specifically among dental students and dental professionals.
A cross-sectional survey study was carried out amongst dental students (undergraduate and postgraduate) and dental professionals at a dental school in the UK. Data were collected using a 38-item questionnaire developed using interviews, experts' evaluation, and previous perceived risks studies of internet services and social media. Risk factors were identified using exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The internal consistency of the extracted factors was determined by Cronbach's α-coefficient reliability test.
A total of 301 dental students and dental professionals completed the questionnaire. EFA identified eight factors perceived by dental students and professionals as critical to their DSM use. Some identified perceived risks were associated with all DSM users in the general context (e.g., personal privacy, and negative impact on self-image), but others were specific to the dental professional context (e.g., breaches of patients' confidentiality, public deception, and reputational damage). The identified factors explained 63.55% of the variance with eigenvalues >1. Cronbach's alpha for the total questionnaire was 0.9.
This study data has deepened the understanding of perceived risks that influence dental students and professionals' DSM use. This will help develop education, training, and guidance to mitigate and manage the risks associated with DSM use in the dental professional context.
本研究探讨了牙科学生和牙科专业人员如何在牙科专业背景下看待使用数字和社交媒体（DSM）的风险，并验证了一份专门用于测量牙科学生和牙科专业人员中DSM感知风险的问卷。
在英国一所牙科学院对牙科学生（本科生和研究生）和牙科专业人员进行了一项横断面调查研究。使用通过访谈、专家评估以及先前关于互联网服务和社交媒体的感知风险研究开发的一份包含38个条目的问卷收集数据。使用探索性因素分析（EFA）确定风险因素。通过Cronbach's α系数可靠性检验确定提取因素的内部一致性。
共有301名牙科学生和牙科专业人员完成了问卷。EFA确定了牙科学生和专业人员认为对其DSM使用至关重要的八个因素。一些确定的感知风险在一般情况下与所有DSM用户相关（例如，个人隐私以及对自我形象的负面影响），但其他一些风险则特定于牙科专业背景（例如，违反患者保密规定、公众欺骗和声誉损害）。所确定的因素解释了特征值>1时63.55%的方差。整个问卷的Cronbach's alpha为0.9。
本研究数据加深了对影响牙科学生和专业人员DSM使用的感知风险的理解。这将有助于开展教育、培训和指导，以减轻和管理牙科专业背景下与DSM使用相关的风险。
