Dental sealant knowledge, opinion, values and practice of Spanish dentists

BMC Oral Health

Eyitope O Ogunbodede²  Richard Niederman³  Mary Tavares⁶  Manuel Bravo⁴  Antonio Castaño⁵  Laura San Martin¹ 

[1] Harvard School of Dental Medicine Boston, Boston, MA, USA;Faculty of Dentistry, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria;Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA;School of Dentistry, University of Granada, Granada, Spain;School of Dentistry, University of Seville, Seville, Spain;Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

关键词: Oral health;    Children;    Prevention;    Dental;    Fissure sealants;   

Others  :  1126149
DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6831-13-12

 received in 2012-08-29, accepted in 2013-01-28,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Multiple guidelines and systematic reviews recommend sealant use to reduce caries risk. Yet, multiple reports also indicate that sealants are significantly underutilized. This study examined the knowledge, opinions, values, and practice (KOVP) of dentists concerning sealant use in the southwest region of Andalusia, Spain. This is a prelude to the generation of a regional plan for improving children’s oral health in Andalusia.

Methods

The survey’s target population was dentists working in western Andalusia, equally distributed in the provinces of Seville, Cadiz, and Huelva (N=2,047). A convenience sample of meeting participants and meeting participant email lists (N=400) were solicited from the annual course on Community and Pediatric Dentistry. This course is required for all public health sector dentists, and is open to all private sector dentists. Information on the dentist’s KOVP of sealants was collected using four-part questionnaire with 31, 5-point Likert-scaled questions.

Results

The survey population demographics included 190 men (48%) and 206 women (52%) with an average clinical experience of 10.6 (± 8.4) years and 9.3 (± 7.5) years, respectively. A significant sex difference was observed in the distribution of place of work (urban/suburb) (p=0.001), but no sex differences between working sector (public/private). The mean ± SD values for each of the four KOVP sections for pit and fissure sealants were: knowledge = 3.57 ± 0.47; opinion = 2.48 ± 0.47; value = 2.74 ± 0.52; and practice = 3.48 ± 0.50. No sex differences were found in KOVP (all p >0.4). Independent of sex: knowledge statistically differed by years of experience and place of work; opinion statistically differed by years of experience and sector; and practice statistically differed by years of experience and sector. Less experienced dentists tended to have slightly higher scores (~0.25 on a Likert 1–5 scale). Statistically significant correlations were found between knowledge and practice (r=0.44, p=0.00) and between opinion and value (r=0.35, p=0.00).

Conclusions

The results suggest that, similar to other countries, Andalusian dentists know that sealants are effective, have neutral to positive attitudes toward sealants; though, based on epidemiological studies, underuse sealants. Therefore, methods other than classical behavior change (eg: financial or legal mechanisms) will be required to change practice patterns aimed at improving children's oral health.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Martin et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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