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- Title
Evaluation of Elementary School Teachers' Knowledge and Attitudes about Immediate Emergency Management of Traumatic Dental Injuries.
- Authors
Bayrak, Sule; Tunc, Emine Sen; Sari, Erhan
- Abstract
Purpose: To investigate teachers' knowledge and attitudes about emergency management of traumatic dental injurie (TDIs) in children. Materials and Methods: A total of 764 teachers from 13 elementary schools were included in the study. Data were collected using a self-reporting questionnaire in which teachers were asked about demographic information, previous experience with dental trauma, irst-aid training, knowledge of emergency management and how they would respond to two hypothetical TDI cases. Results: Of the 764 participants, 550 (71.4%) returned the questionnaire; of these, 309 (56.2%) were female and 24 (43.8%) were male. While 297 teachers reported having had irst-aid training, only 13 (4.4%) of them reported emer gency management of TDIs being covered in this training. Less than half of respondents (47.5%, n = 261) correctly an swered the question on the appropriate response to a TDI involving a fractured tooth and only one-quarter of respond ents (25.4%, n=140) correctly answered the question on the appropriate response to a TDI involving an avulsed tooth. Conclusion: The results of this study demonstrated teachers' low level of knowledge about the emergency treatment o TDIs in schoolchildren, suggesting that educational programmes are needed to improve proper emergency managemen of TDIs by teachers.
- Subjects
TEETH injury treatment; ELEMENTARY school teachers; EMERGENCY management; JUVENILE diseases; ACQUISITION of data; MEDICAL statistics; SELF-evaluation
- Publication
Oral Health & Preventive Dentistry, 2012, Vol 10, Issue 3, p253
- ISSN
1602-1622
- Publication type
Article