Knowledge and Awareness About Isolation and Incubation of COVID-19 Among Dental Students: A Survey
| Autor: | Subaraman M, L Keerthi Sasanka, R Gayathri, Dhanraj Ganapathy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Zdroj: | ECS Transactions. 107:13951-13965 |
| ISSN: | 1938-6737 1938-5862 |
| DOI: | 10.1149/10701.13951ecst |
| Popis: | The World Health Organization (WHO) states that viral diseases have emerged continuously and stands as a greatest public health issue. For the past two decades, there have been epidemics which include viral infections like H1N1 influenza (2009), the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) (2002), and most recent epidemic was the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 following the pandemic COVID-19. At the initial diagnosis, the novel coronavirus was called 2019-nCoV which was later renamed by a group of experts in the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) as SARS-CoV-2 virus because it is similar to the virus that caused SARS (SARS-CoVs). One among the main pathogens that targets the human respiratory system was coronavirus. The past coronaviruses outbreaks comprises the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV which have been a severe public health threat. This is a questionnaire based study where the questionnaire was formatted to assess the knowledge and awareness about the infection COVID. The study was done through an online platform Google forms which consisted of 15 questions. The study population included dental students. The data was received and statistics were analyzed and graphically represented. In total, the results are positive. This survey concluded that dental students are aware of the isolation and incubation of COVID-19. |
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