An Evaluation of Knowledge, Awareness, Attitudes, and Behaviors Regarding COVID-19 Among Parents of Pediatric Dental Patients

Children infected with COVID-19 have a critical part in community-based viral transmission. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge, awareness, attitudes, and behaviors of parents of pediatric dental patients on COVID-19 and to present required actions to prevent its spreading. A total of 524 parents...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Clinical pediatrics 2022-02, Vol.61 (2), p.168-176
Main Authors: Ceyhan, Derya, Kirzioglu, Zuhal, Yildirim, Feyza
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Asymptomatic
Child
Children
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - psychology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dentistry
Disease transmission
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Male
Parenting - psychology
Parenting - trends
Parents & parenting
Parents - psychology
Patients
Pediatric Dentistry - methods
Pediatric Dentistry - statistics & numerical data
Pediatrics
Social Class
Surveys and Questionnaires
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Children infected with COVID-19 have a critical part in community-based viral transmission. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge, awareness, attitudes, and behaviors of parents of pediatric dental patients on COVID-19 and to present required actions to prevent its spreading. A total of 524 parents took part in this cross-sectional study. A self-administered questionnaire was prepared for determining sociodemographic characteristics and socioeconomic status of parents, along with their COVID-19-related knowledge, awareness, attitudes, and behaviors. In total, 90.6% of parents were unaware that disease may show no symptoms; 61.1% and 32.6% did not know roles of “close contact with asymptomatic patients” and “dentistry practices” in transmission, respectively; 30.2% thought it could be transmitted to their children at dental clinics, and only 16.4% stated their children as carriers. Parents need to be informed on COVID-19 transmission through contact with asymptomatic individuals, risks associated with dentistry practices, and role of children in transmission.
ISSN:0009-9228
1938-2707
DOI:10.1177/00099228211059881