Impact of the level of dental education upon oral health attitudes of the students applying Hiroshima University- dental behavioral inventory in a private university : A cross sectional study / Azhar Abdulrahman Alwesabi ; Kamal Elmotayam , Fatma Korany

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine - Department of Pedodontics

Dental students are the future leaders in providing oral health care and are expected to be teachers of oral hygiene as well as role models of self-care regimens for their patients and society. This study was carried out to evaluate the impact of level of dental education upon oral health attitude, behavior and knowledge of dental students in Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST), Egypt, using Hiroshima University-Dental Behavioral Inventory (HU-DBI). A convenient consecutive sampling was applied to include available students from all educational levels. An english version and a translated Arabic version of questionnaire based on the Hiroshima University-Dental Behavioral Inventory consisted of 20 dichotomous responses (agree-disagree), was distributed among 786 undergraduate dental students who were invited to complete the questionnaire in their classrooms.There was a statistical significant difference in attitude, behavior and knowledge between preclinical and clinical students. Male{u2019}s attitude was higher than females, while there was no statistical significant difference in oral health behavior and knowledge relevant to gender. This study concluded that the oral health attitude, behavior and knowledge improve as students educational level advances from preclinical courses to clinical level. Furthermore, males had better oral health attitude than females, while there is no gender differences toward oral health behavior and knowledge

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