en اورژانس Emergency پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="line-height:200%"><b><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:black">Background:</span></span></span></b> <span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">C</span></span><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">orona virus disease </span></span></span><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">affected health professionals and humans around the globe. World health organization announced as pandemic on 11^th March 2020.Hence the purpose of the research was t</span></span><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">o evaluate knowledge, attitude, and practice of dentist in southern state of India during Covid-19 lockdown.</span></span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:200%"><b><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">Materials and Methods:</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d"> A descriptive </span></span></span><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">online questionnaire based </span></span><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">survey </span></span></span><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">was executed </span></span></span><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">on </span></span></span><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">knowledge, attitude, and practice of dentist in southern state of India </span></span></span><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">during October 2020 to December 2020.It</span></span><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d"> was a</span></span></span> <span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">self-directed, unidentified questionnaire comprised of 25 restricted questions with </span></span><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">4 possible answers</span></span></span><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">.</span></span><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">The participants were recruited using </span></span></span><span style="color:#0d0d0d">non-probability availability sampling </span><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">and total 40 clinical dental students, interns, practicing dentist, dental specialists and academician were included. </span></span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:200%"><b><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">Results: </span></span></b><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">The questionnaire contained personal information (5), knowledge (7), attitudes (6) and practices (6) questions. </span></span></span><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">60% of the respondents belonged to 20-30 years while 30% between 31 and 45 years old. </span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:200%"><b><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">Discussion:</span></span></b><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d"> The participants were 59% undergraduates,30% postgraduates,7% academician,3.6% academician and private practitioner. Most of them aware of SARS-CoV2 belonged to RNA virus, route of imparting was through respiratory droplets, the effectiveness of hand washes and sanitizers in killing the virus evoked mixed response, while only 66.6% respondents said that it was effective in killing the virus.</span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:200%"><b><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">Conclusion:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="color:#0d0d0d"> The practicing dentist and academician had enough knowledge to manage COVID-19 situation very well compared to students and interns. Hence, the academician should conduct regular online classes to make the students and interns to sensitize the importance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kit, N-95 mask, sterilization, hand sanitization and vaccination during COVID-19.&nbsp; </span></span></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp;</div> Covid-19, Dentist, Communicable diseases, Pandemic 0 0 http://hdq.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-663-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ahila Singaravel Chidambaranathan ahilasc@yahoo.co.in Yes Department of Prosthodontics, SRM Dental College, Bharathi Salai, Ramapuram, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, TamilNadu, India. Muthukumar Balasubramanium muthu62@gmail.com No Department of Prosthodontics, SRM Dental College, Bharathi Salai, Ramapuram, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, TamilNadu, India. Aravind Kalambettu aravindbhat29@gmail.com No Faculty of Dentistry, AIMST University, Kedah, Malaysia.