Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-26-2022
Publication Title
Healthcare
Volume
10
Issue
10
First page number:
1
Last page number:
16
Abstract
Adherence to the dental practice regulatory guidelines instituted during the COVID- 19 pandemic is essential to minimize the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 strains. Given the lack of a valid and reliable survey tool to assess the adherence to dental practice guidelines, this study aims to develop, validate, and test a survey tool on a pilot sample of dental clinicians practicing in India. A survey tool was developed/validated through a sequential phasic approach: Phase Ideveloping survey using conceptual and literature framework; Phase II: ascertaining its validity and reliability; Phase III: pilot testing; and Phase IV: assessing construct validity by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on the responses collected in Spring 2021. The EFA was achieved using a traditional unweighted least squares extraction method through a varimax rotation with Kaiser normalization. A six-factor solution with 18 items (with the global reliability of 86%) related to screening, regular infection prevention measures, infection control inside the dental operatory, disinfection of the dental unit, disposal, and other COVID-19-specific preventive measures were extracted. Our sample had higher compliance with regard to providing alcohol-based hand scrubs, providing protective gear to attendees, collecting travel/medical history, and screening patients for COVID-19 symptoms. In contrast, less compliance was observed regarding the use of paperless forms of practice and rubber dams in the operatory. The use of a validated survey tool ensures the collection of reliable and valid data, which can serve as baseline data to measure the uptake and effectiveness of dental practice regulatory guidelines in a clinical setting and community dental health clinics.
Keywords
SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Dental guidelines; Dental clinicians; Exploratory factor analysis
Disciplines
Oral Biology and Oral Pathology | Other Dentistry
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1523 KB
Language
English
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Repository Citation
Kaurani, P.,
Batra, K.,
Hooja, H. R.,
Chander, N. G.,
Bhowmick, A.,
Arora, S.,
Baba, S. M.,
Khateeb, S. U.,
Abdulla, A. M.,
Grover, V.,
Saluja, P.
(2022).
Assessing the Compliance of Dental Clinicians towards Regulatory Infection Control Guidelines Using a Newly Developed Survey Tool: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study in India.
Healthcare, 10(10),
1-16.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101877