Evaluation of knowledge, attitude, and practice of Tabriz dental general practitioners about infection control of taken impression(1390)

Abstract

Dental health care workers are always posed to the risk of croos-infection. The taken impressions are one of the possible way of this type of infection, therefore this study was aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practice of Tabriz general denal practitioners (GDPs) on the methods of disinfecting impressions. Methods and Materials: in this study 183 individuals were participated in this study and the questionnaire was filled out by them. The collected data was reported by descriptive statistics and Pearsons correlation was utilized for assessing relation between variables. P<0.05 was considered significant at this study. Results: The mean knowledge grade of GDPs was 9.4 (23.4% of GDPs have the poor knowledge level, 74.5% moderate, and 2.2% were good). At all attitude questions 80% of GDPs agreed. The mean practice grade of GDPs was 5.1 (13% of GDPs have the poor practice level, 71.2% moderate, and 14.7% were good). There was not a significant difference between the practice of GDPs in relation to variables like the clinical experience and gender (P>0.05). The Kruskal wallis analysis revealed a significant difference between the knowledge of GDPs with different clinical experience (P<0.05). Conclusions: Totally, the knowledge level of Tabriz GDPs were at moderate levels and their attitude and practice level was moderate to high.