Knowledge and attitudes on dentists in Pichincha, Ecuador
Abstract
Establish a level of knowledge, attitudes and strengths for dentists living in Pichincha, Ecuador, based on the concepts of a minimally invasive odontology, keeping in sight it’s development and capacitation. This is a research of an observational, analytic and transversal level, applied over a probabilistic sample of 250 dentists who offer services at the Pichincha province, which were tested with a questionary translated to Spanish language and approved by two professionals, applying a pilot test on a short level population. The questions took in consideration sociodemographic aspects as genre, age and years of job experience. The focus and knowledge about the minimally invasive dental concepts, explored diagnostical techniques, for prevention and restoration through 26 questions classified on the answer categories Likert. The obtained data was analyzed on a statistical way using the program SPSS, applying the Chi square test. For the results, a large majority of professionals belong to female genre, on an age below than 30. The 90% of the sample manifested enough knowledge, strengths and attitudes about the dental minimally invasive concepts. The Chi square technique determined that the level of education and formal capacitation doesn’t affect in the knowledge, attitudes and strengths of the professionals. As a result, the sample presented a high level of knowledge, strengths and attitudes involving the concepts of dental minimally invasive concepts on a high level obtained by informal ways.
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