Title

Knowledge and awareness on pneumoconiosis among dental technicians and senior dental technology students in Saudi Arabia

Authors

Abbasi Begum Meer Rownaq Ali*^,1, Haifa Sultan Dathan Alharbi², Bushra Faraj Sahmi Al-Subaie³, HM Khuthija Khanam⁴ & Hina Kausher⁵

Affiliation

¹Department of Prosthodontics, Dental Lab Technology, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; ²Dental Lab Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; ³Dental Lab Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; ⁴Department of Restorative and Prosthetic Dental Sciences, Dar Al Uloom University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; ⁵Department of Prosthodontics, Dental Lab Technology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; *Corresponding author; Communicated by Vini Mehta – E-mail: vinip.mehta@gmail.com

Email

Abbasi Begum Meer Rownaq Ali - E-mail: abbasi.begum@riyadh.edu.sa

Haifa Sultan Dathan Alharbi - E-mail: haifa.d.alharabi@student.riyadh.edu.sa

Bushra Faraj Sahmi Al-Subaie - E-mail: bushra.s.alsubaie@student.riyadh.edu.sa

HM Khuthija Khanam - E-mail: khuthija@dau.edu.sa

Hina Kausher - E-mail: hina.kausher@riyadh.edu.sa

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received September 2, 2022; Revised October 3, 2022; Accepted October 6, 2022, Published October 31, 2022

Dental technicians' pneumoconiosis is a condition that causes interstitial inflammation and fibrosis as a result of complex drug exposure. Therefore, it is of interest to assess and evaluate the knowledge and awareness about pneumoconiosis and other respiratory disorders among dental technicians and dental technology students in Saudi Arabia. A cross sectional survey was conducted on convenient sample of 300 senior dental technician students and dental technicians from Saudi Arabia and informed consent was obtained. The participants were approached through online questionnaire using Google forms. Questions were related to the socio-demographic data, knowledge and awareness of the students and the practicing dental technicians and their willingness to learn about pneumoconiosis. Final year undergraduate, interns and Dental technicians were included, undergraduate students without practical knowledge and experience and participants with history of respiratory disease were excluded from the study. Questions were assessed by face validity. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences software. Descriptive statistics was calculated. 34.8% of the study group were not aware of the term and don’t know about the etiology of pneumoconiosis. Pearson correlation was significant in terms of awareness difference between males and females and females had less awareness compared to males.

Keywords

Pneumoconiosis, dental technicians, respiratory disorders

Citation

Ali et al. Bioinformation 18(10): 968-973 (2022)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.