Insights about Child Abuse among Dentists in Tamilnadu
| Autor: | M A Adil Ahmed, V Anu, Shruthi Parthasarathy, Saravana S Devi, Sophia C Eveangelin, ST Shalini |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Medico-Legal Update. 19:185 |
| ISSN: | 0974-1283 0971-720X |
| DOI: | 10.5958/0974-1283.2019.00169.5 |
| Popis: | Aim: The aim of the study is to assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Dental Practitionersregarding child abuse. Materials and Method: A pre-tested questionnaire containing 19 closed endedquestions was distributed who had atleast one year of clinical experience. Data collection was carried out bydirect interview with the dentist and the collected data was entered in the Windows Microsoft excel sheet.Descriptive statistics and Chi square test was carried out. Level of significance was set as 0.05. Result:The study showed that 57 percent of dentists are seeing around 1 to 10 patient below17 years per week. 10percent of dentists investigated child abuse patients themselves. 28 percent of them had contacted a doctor,colleague, dental association or children’s hospital if they suspected a case and 59 percent of dentist areuncertain about diagnosing child abuse. Conclusion: Detecting and treating child abuse is a benefit notonly to the child but also for the society. Thus it should become mandatory that the dentists are trained torecognize it, so that more cases would be diagnosed and reported by the dental profession |
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