TY  - JOUR
T1  - Assessing Dental Students’ Views on Special-Care Dentistry: Insights from Universitas Indonesia
A1  - Wang Wei
A1  - Yu-Hui Wang
A1  - Joaquín Castillo
A1  - Lara Pineda
JF  - International Journal of Dental Research and Allied Sciences
JO  - Int J Dent Res Allied Sci
SN  - 3062-3502
Y1  - 2024
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
DO  - 10.51847/uyuefmAqdf
SP  - 66
EP  - 75
N2  - This research aimed to explore how dental students at the Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Indonesia, perceive special care dentistry (SCD). A descriptive cross-sectional approach was applied through an online self-completed questionnaire distributed to all preclinical and clinical students. The instrument covered four areas: demographic details, understanding of SCD, attitudes toward treating individuals with special needs, and opinions on SCD education. Statistical evaluation was performed using chi-square and Mann–Whitney tests. A total of 572 participants completed the survey. Clinical students displayed higher familiarity with SCD than preclinical students (p = 0.008). The type of program showed significant associations with self-assessed competence in treating special-needs patients independently after graduation (p < 0.001), the ability to refer patients to appropriate specialists (p = 0.042), perceived necessity for postgraduate training (p < 0.001), and the willingness to pursue such programs (p = 0.004). The majority of respondents viewed SCD positively. Therefore, improving SCD teaching and hands-on exposure in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula is recommended to strengthen students’ preparedness to manage patients with special needs.
UR  - https://tsdp.net/article/assessing-dental-students-views-on-special-care-dentistry-insights-from-universitas-indonesia-p3c3vinzd6afgt3
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