Identification of semester-specific teaching contents for dental ethics: development, testing and validation of a questionnaire

BMC Medical Education

Katrin Hertrampf¹  Ann-Christine Gutermuth¹  Hans-Jürgen Wenz²  Dominik Groß³  Katja Goetz⁴ 

[1] Clinic of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany;Clinic of Prosthodontics, Propaedeutics and Dental Materials, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany;Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany;Institute of Family Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany;

关键词: Ethics;    Dental education;    Validation;    Questionnaire;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-021-02541-x

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundAlthough medical ethics is an indispensable part of dental education, it has not played a relevant role in the dental curriculum thus far. This study is aimed at developing and validating a questionnaire that identifies semester-specific ethical issues, in order to develop longitudinal ethic modules.MethodsMarch 2018 a workshop on item generation was coordinated, using Delphi method; followed by a cognitive testing with students (2nd, 4th, 10th semesters, n = 12). A pilot test was carried out with students from different semesters (n = 60). The distribution of response frequencies and missing values were determined. The questionnaire used for validation consisted of three dimensions: ethical knowledge, dealing with ethical issues, expectations in terms of teaching. The psychometric examination was carried out by preclinical students (n = 105) and clinical semesters (n = 110) January 2019.ResultsAfter cognitive testing and piloting, some items were reformulated, so that a questionnaire with 127 items was used for validation. The individual dimensions were assigned to various factors with excellent to acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach’s α 0.72–0.96).ConclusionThe questionnaire has an acceptable to excellent consistency and suggests that the different dimensions are conclusive. With this questionnaire, ethical issues in dentistry can be mapped and teaching contents identified.

【 授权许可】

CC BY