Department of Preventive and Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Eur J Dent Educ. 2024 Nov;28(4):1036-1046. doi: 10.1111/eje.13038. Epub 2024 Sep 6.
Child abuse and neglect (CAN) are social and public health problems. Access to oral health care for abused and neglected children is a challenge. The aim of this study was to assess the attitudes and knowledge of dental students from Bosnia and Herzegovina towards CAN.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 263 dental students from two public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The students answered 31 questions about the topic of CAN. The study population was categorised by year of study into six groups. Pearson's chi-squared test was used to analyse differences among participants regarding the year of study. The level of significance was set at p < 0.05.
The results show that 10.26% of total participants had experienced some knowledge about the topic of CAN during their studies, 17.87% had read about it in professional dental literature and 8.74% had some form of education and training on the topic. Over 50% of participants answered all of the questions about social indicators of CAN correctly. The knowledge of the study participants was found to be deficient concerning some physical signs of CAN found in the orofacial region. For a significant number of questions 'I don't know' was a frequent answer.
The level of knowledge of dental students from Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding the challenge of CAN is insufficient. An important strategy this to improve this is to increase the education and training of child abuse and neglect in dental curriculums.
儿童虐待和忽视（CAN）是社会和公共卫生问题。受虐待和忽视的儿童获得口腔保健服务是一项挑战。本研究旨在评估来自波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的牙科学生对 CAN 的态度和知识。
对来自波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那两所公立大学的 263 名牙科学生进行了横断面调查。学生们回答了 31 个关于 CAN 主题的问题。研究人群按学习年限分为六组。采用 Pearson's chi-squared 检验分析参与者在学习年限方面的差异。显著性水平设为 p<0.05。
结果表明，10.26%的总参与者在学习期间有过一些关于 CAN 主题的知识，17.87%在专业牙科文献中读到过相关内容，8.74%接受过关于该主题的某种形式的教育和培训。超过 50%的参与者正确回答了所有关于 CAN 的社会指标问题。研究参与者对口腔区域发现的一些 CAN 身体迹象的知识明显不足。对于相当数量的问题，“我不知道”是一个常见的答案。
来自波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的牙科学生对 CAN 挑战的知识水平不足。一个重要的策略是在牙科课程中增加对儿童虐待和忽视的教育和培训。
