Exploring educational and promotional opportunities for implementing oral rapid human immunodeficiency virus testing among dentists in India.
Dental setting
India
human immunodeficiency virus
oral rapid human immunodeficiency virus testing
promotional opportunity
Journal
Journal of education and health promotion
ISSN: 2277-9531
Titre abrégé: J Educ Health Promot
Pays: India
ID NLM: 101593794
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
26
03
2019
accepted:
08
06
2019
entrez:
1
2
2020
pubmed:
1
2
2020
medline:
1
2
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a public health problem in India. Dentist plays an important role in diagnosing since oral lesions are common in HIV-positive patients and have an ethical responsibility to provide treatment to them. This study aims to explore educational and promotional opportunities for implementing oral rapid HIV testing (ORHT) among dentists in Bengaluru, India. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 300 dentists. Dentists were included from private practice, dental practice in general hospital, and dental teaching/hospitals. A 43-item questionnaire was used to assess demographics, educational knowledge on HIV and ORHT, attitude toward HIV patients, and willingness to promote ORHT and perceived barriers of performing ORHT. The data were evaluated using SPSS 22. Student's Mean age of the participants was 38.97 ± 7.69 years with equal distribution of gender and practice. Majority were postgraduates (63.0%) and having general practice (56.6%). Although two-thirds of the participants belong to high score category, the mean knowledge level is below 50%. Mean score of knowledge was 10.70 ± 2.5. One hundred and thirty (43.3%) dentists were aware of ORHT, and 228 (76%) thought that ORHT was needed in the dental clinic. Dentist having specialty practice felt more accepting of ORHT (odds ratio = 2.455, 95% confidence interval 1.186-5.463). The lack of knowledge and training was the main barrier (39%) to conduct ORHT. The level of knowledge of the dentist about HIV/AIDS was acceptable. Majority of the dentist thought that ORHT is needed in a dental clinic. Overall, there was positive attitude toward HIV patients and ORHT.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32002417
doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_174_19
pii: JEHP-8-245
pmc: PMC6967216
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
245Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Education and Health Promotion.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
There are no conflicts of interest.
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