Azouzi Ines, Kallala Rym, Gassara Yosra, Ghazel Raslen, Harzallah Belhassen, Khattech Mohamed Bassem
Department of Dental Medicine, Military Hospital of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia.
Research Laboratory of Occlusodontics and Ceramic Prostheses LR16ES15, 5000 Monastir, Tunisia.
Tunis Med. 2023 Oct 5;101(10):770-774.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic might have an unprecedented impact on dental education.
The main aim of this study was to investigate the impact of COVID-19 among Tunisian dental students.
This was a cross-sectional study carried out from January to March 2022, at the Faculty of Dental Medicine of Monastir (FDMM), Tunisia. The population consisted of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th year dental students registered for the academic year 2021/2022 at the FDMM. The potential number of participants was 881 according to the administration of the faculty. The applied questionnaire was made of 17 questions adapted to the Tunisian context. Incomplete answers were considered as exclusion criteria.
A total of 446 students responded to the online survey giving an overall response rate of 50.6%. The study revealed that the FDMM was not doing its best to solve the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic for 88.8% of the responders. Dental students were concerned about the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on their dental education (69.6%) especially about graduating on time (63.0%) since changes made in dental medicine education due to the pandemic were stressful for 61.1% of them. The students reached emotional support from their family and friends (46.5%) whereas only 9.8% of them requested assistance from faculty's staff.
This study provides information about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dental education. These findings may sensitize officials in the FDMM to take measures in order to deliver better education to dental medicine students.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行可能对牙科教育产生前所未有的影响。
本研究的主要目的是调查COVID-19对突尼斯牙科学生的影响。
这是一项于2022年1月至3月在突尼斯莫纳斯提尔牙医学院（FDMM）进行的横断面研究。研究对象为在FDMM注册参加2021/2022学年学习的三、四、五、六年级牙科学生。根据学院管理部门的数据，潜在参与者人数为881人。所应用的问卷由17个根据突尼斯情况改编的问题组成。不完整的答案被视为排除标准。
共有446名学生回复了在线调查，总体回复率为50.6%。研究表明，88.8%的受访者认为FDMM在应对与COVID-19大流行相关的挑战方面没有尽最大努力。牙科学生担心COVID-19大流行对他们牙科教育的影响（69.6%），尤其是按时毕业（63.0%），因为大流行导致牙医学教育的变化让61.1%的学生感到压力很大。学生们从家人和朋友那里获得了情感支持（46.5%），而只有9.8%的学生向学院工作人员寻求帮助。
本研究提供了关于COVID-19大流行对牙科教育影响的信息。这些发现可能会促使FDMM的官员采取措施，以便为牙医学学生提供更好的教育。
