Table 2. Knowledge and attitudes of students about COVID-19.
| Questions | Male (n = 165) % | Female (n = 190) % | P value | Preclinical (n = 242) % | Clinical (n = 113) % | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Have you been informed about COVID-19 in your faculty like lectures or seminars? | Yes | 25.5 | 24.7% | .486 | 19.8% | 36.3% | .001* |
| No | 74.5% | 75.3% | 80.2% | 63.7% | |||
| Have you asked questions such as high fever, dry cough or travel abroad while taking an anamnesis from your patients in the last 3 months? | Yes | 13.9% | 16.8% | .273 | 17.4% | 11.5% | .102 |
| No | 86.1% | 83.2% | 82.6% | 88.5% | |||
| Did COVID-19 negatively affect your psychology? | Yes | 68.5% | 80.5% | .002* | 70.2% | 85% | .001* |
| No | 19.4% | 6.8% | 13.2% | 11.5% | |||
| Undecided | 12.1% | 12.6% | 16.6% | 3.5% | |||
| Are you afraid of becoming infected with COVID-19 as a healthcare professional working at close range with the patient? | Yes | 74.5% | 88.9% | .001* | 77.6% | 92% | .002* |
| No | 15.2% | 5.3% | 12% | 5.3% | |||
| Undecided | 10.3% | 5.8% | 10.4% | 2.7% | |||
| Are you afraid to infect any relatives or people around you in terms of COVID-19 because you are a healthcare worker working very close to the patient? | Yes | 91.6% | 94.2% | .485 | 90.5% | 98.2% | .012* |
| No | 4.2% | 3.7% | 5.4% | 0.9% | |||
| Undecided | 4.2% | 2.1% | 4.1% | 0.9% | |||
| Would you hesitate to treat a patient who came to dental treatment after getting over and recovering from COVID-19 infection? | Yes | 37.6% | 50% | .001* | 40% | 53% | .066 |
| No | 47.2% | 27.4% | 38.9% | 31.9% | |||
| Undecided | 15.2% | 22.6% | 21.1% | 15.1% | |||
| Do you think that after your COVID-19 pandemic, you will be more careful in your standard measures regarding contamination in your patients? | Yes | 77.6% | 88.9% | .012* | 80.2% | 91.2% | .033 |
| No | 4.8% | 1.6% | 3.7% | 1.7% | |||
| Undecided | 17.6% | 9.5% | 16.1% | 7.1% | |||
| With the COVID-19 outbreak, did you regret that you chose the dentistry profession? | Yes | 9.7% | 8.9% | .426 | 7.9% | 12.4% | .382 |
| No | 78.8% | 74.7% | 78.1% | 73.5% | |||
| Undecided | 11.5% | 16.4% | 14% | 14.2% | |||
| Do antibiotics benefit in the treatment of COVID- 19? | Yes | 3.6% | 3.7% | .357 | 2.2% | 5.1% | .133 |
| No | 83% | 77.4% | 76.4% | 83.5% | |||
| I don’t know | 13.4% | 18.9% | 21.4% | 11.4% | |||
| Can a mother diagnosed with COVID-19 breastfeed her child? | Yes | 15.2% | 12.1% | .559 | 11.6% | 14.7% | .285 |
| No | 49.0% | 54.2% | 53.3% | 49.% | |||
| I don’t know | 35.8% | 33.7% | 35.1% | 35.6% |
Notes.
*
Chi-square test p < 0.05.