Impact of parent’s knowledge and attitude about pediatric dental treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic in Bhairahawa City, Nepal

Abstract

A new type of coronavirus that causes pneumonia was first detected in December 2019, in Wuhan. It was first denoted as the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, Wuhan in December 2019, referred to a new coronavirus capable of infecting humans as SARS-CoV-2. At the same time, the World Health Organization declared the official name of the disease caused by this virus as COVID-19.In this cross-sectional questionnaire survey, 180 participants out of 190 participants were included to evaluate the knowledge and attitude about the pediatric dental treatment during covid-19 pandemic among parents, who visited the department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, of Universal College of Medical Sciences, during covid-19 pandemic for three months (February 2021 to April 2021), in Bhairahawa, Nepal.In this study out of 180 participants, 105(58.33%) were male and 75(41.66%) were female. All parents were concerned and aware of COVID-19. Every child was explained about covid-19 viruses by their parents.Even though the parents were aware of the Covid-19 pandemic and had discussed it with their children, still they do not prefer any kind of dental treatment even in severe pain. As they thought that other places are less infectious than a pediatric dental clinic.Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of pediatric dental patients’ parents’ towards COVID-1 9 in Bhairahawa, Nepal.