Anxiety Level and Oral Hygiene Practice in Dental Students During Covid-19 Pandemic

NCT04460469 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Mai Zakaria 4
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 1,500
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Covid-19, the infection caused by a novel corona virus detected in December 2019 in Wuhan (Hubei province), is now a pandemic announced by World Health Organization, raising concerns of widespread panic and increasing anxiety in individuals. This outbreak results in mass quarantine in Egypt since middle of March 2020. Brooks et al. (2019) reviewed and reported quarantine could bring "post traumatic stress symptoms, confusion, and anger. Stressors included longer quarantine duration, infection fears, frustration, boredom, inadequate supplies, inadequate information, financial loss, and stigma.". Many universities decided to suspend in-person classes and evacuate students in responding to the intensifying concerns surrounding Covid-19. This action can lead to negative psychological consequences among college students. Oral health related behavior and attitudes habits correlate with oral health status and can be considered to be its predictors . There is a claim of potential connection between high bacterial load in the mouth and complications associated with Covid-19 infection. Bacteria present in the meta genome of patients severely infected with Covid-19 included high reads for Prevotella, Staphylococcus, and Fusobacterium, all usually commensal organisms of the mouth. Over 80% of patients in ICU exhibited an exceptionally high bacterial load. Accordingly, the investigators assume that good oral hygiene better to be maintained during a Covid-19 outbreak in order to reduce the bacterial load in the mouth and the risk of a bacterial super infection in case of catching the infection . While there seems to be a common belief that psychosocial stress affects oral hygiene behavior, this assumption has rarely been proved9 Dental students, as the future providers of dental care, are ex¬pected to be role models for their patients regarding the oral hygiene practice and they supposed to be aware of the importance of preserving the oral health. Thus, we intended to select them as our population to study how the level of anxiety during pandemic could affect the practice of oral hygien

Conditions

Anxiety; Covid19; Oral Hygiene

Keywords

Anxiety; Covid19; Oral Hygiene Practice; Dental students; questionnaire

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• correlate between the level of anxiety and the practice of oral hygiene during covid-19 pandemic in dental students of Cairo university

  By questionnaire

  2 months

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The questionnaire is going to be disseminated as google form to all the Cairo university dental students via emails .

You may qualify if:

• Student of faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Cairo University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University

Cairo, 115, Egypt

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders; COVID-19

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Respiratory Tract Infections; Infections; Virus Diseases; Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases

Study Officials

• Mai Zakaria, Ph

  Lecturer Oral Medicine & Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: OTHER
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer Oral Medicine & Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 4, 2020
• First Posted: July 7, 2020
• Study Start: July 1, 2020
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2020
• Study Completion: November 1, 2020
• Last Updated: March 10, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

EG (1)