The study will include general dental practitioners or dental specialists from Police Academy Hospital and pediatric dentists from Pediatric dentistry department at Faculty of Dentistry Cairo University. A self-administered questionnaire will be given to dentists by direct interviewing and they will be allowed to complete the questionnaire in Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University or Police Academy Hospital. The data will be based on a collection of responses to the 38 items in the questionnaire.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
150
The questionnaire is in English language, it contains binary questions related to KAP on different preventive measures in pediatric dentistry and consists of 38 items divided into 4 sections as follows: I) Socio-demographic data: (7 items). It includes gender, total years in practice, nature of primary practice, school of graduation, scientific degree and specialty II) Assessment of Knowledge towards preventive measures in pediatric dentistry. (16 items) III) Assessment of Attitude towards preventive measures in pediatric dentistry. (10 items) IV) Assessment of Practice towards preventive measures in pediatric dentistry. (5items) One score is given for each response to items.
Knowledge,attitude and practice towards preventive measures in pediatric dentistry.
Measuring device is a KAP questionnaire and measuring unit id binary questions
Time frame: 3 months
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