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KMID : 0355420010250030287
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Journal of Korean Academy of Oral Health
2001 Volume.25 No. 3 p.287 ~ p.298
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Knowledge and attitudes toward AIDS among Korean dental students
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to investigate knowledge and attitudes about AIDS among Korean dental students. The study population surveyed by means of a self-administered questionnaire consisted of 278 dental students of 3 dental schools in Korea. Generally, the students possessed high level knowledge about AIDS. However, there was a lower degree of knowledge at some questionnaire about cause, transmission, treatment and prevention. Over one-third of the respondents said they were afraid of getting AIDS. The majority of respondents had a reluctance toward HIV infected patients. Almost all said that they felt the fear of infection if they had to treat HIV infected persons.
Nevertheless, two-thirds(64.4%) of students had a responsibility to treat persons with HIV like any other patients. About two-thirds of respondents wanted additional education about AIDS. It is concluded that not only factual scientific, and medical informations known about AIDS but also ethical and professional responsibilities of being a dentist must be instilled by dental school education and post-graduate continuing educational courses.
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