Abstract
Background: Oral health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors possessed by dental students become provisions in the education and promotion of oral health in the community. Purpose: This study aims to analyze the oral health knowledge, attitudes and behavior of Indonesian dental students in East Java province based on gender and educational stage. Methods: This research is a cross-sectional study using an online questionnaire distributed to dental students at five dental faculties in East Java. 169 respondents in this study completed an online HU-DBI questionnaire with a choice of answers to agree or disagree about the description of oral health knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Results: Female students have a higher level of knowledge and oral health behavior than the opposite sex with a significance value of <0.001 and 0.05, respectively. There was a significant correlation between knowledge and attitude with a significance level of 0.030 and a correlation between knowledge and behavior with a significant number of 0.037. Conclusion: Female dental students had better oral health knowledge and behavior than male dental students. There is no relationship between the education stage and oral health knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. Further, we found positif association between oral health knowledge and attitudes towards behaviour.
Highlights
Oral health is a part of general health
This study found that female dental students showed better oral health knowledge and behaviour
Frequency n % 33 19.5 136 80.5 86 50.9 83 49.1 line with research conducted by Vangipuram et al.[6] which states that gender influences oral health behaviors
Summary
Oral health is a part of general health. Those cannot be separated from each other because oral health will affect the overall health of the body, and vice versa. Dental students as prospective dentists play an important role in educating and promoting oral and dental public health. Providing the same measurement of students’ oral health knowledge, attitude and behaviour using HU-DBI could facilitate comparisons across countries and cultures. Attitudes and behaviors possessed by dental students become provisions in the education and promotion of oral health in the community. Purpose: This study aims to analyze the oral health knowledge, attitudes and behavior of Indonesian dental students in East Java province based on gender and educational stage. 169 respondents in this study completed an online HU-DBI questionnaire with a choice of answers to agree or disagree about the description of oral health knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Conclusion: Female dental students had better oral health knowledge and behavior than male dental students. We found positif association between oral health knowledge and attitudes towards behaviour
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