KIẾN THỨC VÀ THÁI ĐỘ CỦA SINH VIÊN RĂNG HÀM MẶT ĐỐI VỚI CÔNG TÁC KIỂM SOÁT NHIỄM KHUẨN TẠI CƠ SỞ KHÁM CHỮA BỆNH RĂNG HÀM MẶT

Abstract

A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 77 final-year students, School of Dentistry, Hanoi Medical University to describe the current state of knowledge and attitudes of dental students towards infection control in 2022 - 2023. The results show that the percentage of students who consider themselves to receive information about infection control in dentistry is at fair level of 74%,  poor level, and good level are 10.4% and 15.6% respectively. Students' attitudes about cross-infection control are good (1.81 ± 0.45); hand hygiene attitude is good (1.78 ± 0.47), attitude about using personal protective equipment is poor (1.48 ± 0.66), safe injection attitude and protecting sharp objects is good  (1.69 ± 0.58), attitude about dental instrument cleaning and sterilization is good  (1.56 ± 0.58), attitude about disposal of waste in the dental practice is good (1.70 ± 0.58). Research shows that students' knowledge of infection control specialized in dentistry is still limited. Therefore, dental institutions as well as dental practical units need to pay more attention to teaching and training students on infection control in the field of dentistry.