AEGiS-15IAC: The effect of education on IRANIAN dental professionals about transmission and prevention routes of AIDS disease in 2003.

15th International AIDS Conference


Bangkok, Thailand - July 11-16, 2004

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The effect of education on IRANIAN dental professionals about transmission and prevention routes of AIDS disease in 2003.

Int Conf AIDS 2004 Jul 11-16; 15:(abstract no. E10014)

Ziaei Torbati AR, Ziaei Torbati M, Pourhassan A
Young Researchers Club (Islamic Azad University) - Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran

BACKGROUND: Injection is one of the most fast routes in spread of HIV in the world. Currently there are more than 4400 HIV+ cases in IRAN. As one of the routes of HIV transmission is related dentistry practice, research about the effect of education on knowledge and attitude of dental professionals for suggesting appreciate interventions is important. Materials &

METHODS: This research is an interventional assessment and cases of this research are 400 dental professionals which are chosen in 2003 and were studied by Questionnaire contains 38 questions about transmission routes, prevention, diagnosis and the kind of deal with patients as pre-test. Then they got some information by infections disease specialists and dentists and after that they were studied with the same Questionnaire as post-test. Data analysis was down with calculation of relative frequency, central tendency and disparity, analysis of variance and T-test by using SPSS10.

RESULTS: this assessment showed that after education the mean score of knowledge about transmission routes and prevention of HIV/AIDS infection increased about 20% and the mean of attitude score of dental professionals increased about 22%.

CONCLUSION: Interventional education can improve the knowledge and attitude of dental professionals about HIV prevention. Keywords: education - dental professional - AIDS

Keywords: AEGIS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Teaching, HIV Seropositivity, Health Education, Dentists, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Questionnaires, Students, Students, Dental, Schools, Education, Dental, Knowledge, Curriculum, Iran, Humans, transmission, prevention & control, education, statistics & numerical data

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