A survey of Tabriz dentists attitude, toward treatment of HIV-Positive patients

Abstract

In early 1980s. HIV is known as a fatal disease of 21 century. AIDS is a kind of HIV disease that we can observe some opportunist infections and server weaken of immunity system. HIV transmitted through sexual intercourse, bloody relation, corporal infection products and through mother to fetus. Often dentists are first persons who observe oral demonstrations and signs of beginning of diseases and this early diagnosis can increase the patients' lifetime; however the relation between dentists and patients who suffer AIDS is not a logical retaliation. Dentists do not accept such patients due to they fear this. Patients and also some patients avoid giving more information about their problems in dentistry clinic. Studies show that dentists do not accept such patients because they fear such patients and dentists worry about that they loss other patients who are not suffer AIDS. In regard to researches, it was necessary we do other investigation about the dentists' point of view toward this disease and suffered patients and if their point of view was negative. We provide other approaches for improving dentist's point of view. The goal of this study is investigating dentists idea, About treatment of patient who suffer positive-HIV in Tabriz. Methods and materials: In this study for collecting data, we have used a questionnaire which is include 23 questions. For providing this questionnaire we utilized the stuffy of Bennette ME and his colleagues (1995). Questions is about "effect on performance, satisfactions with job, fear of contamination by AIDS, having options in cure, law and ethics obligations and having negative sense". Interviewers were 240 persons who selected randomly among Tabriz dentists according to list provided by Medical Association. Questionnaire posted with an envelop and stamp to considered dentists. Collected data analyzed by descriptive statistics and SPSS. 14/win software. Results: In this study %74.4 have negative point of view and %24.2 have positive point of view in relation to positive- HIV among 220 dentists (P<0.05). Dentists point of view with years of service (P=0.12) and dentist rank of profession have not significant relation, but have a relations with their age so that with increasing age their point of view was negative (P= 0.013). Conclusion: On the basis of total findings dentists' point of view toward positive E HIV was negative.