%0 Journal Article
%T Studying the Level of Knowledge of Medical Students about Oral Diseases and Their Relationship with General Health
%A Zahide Kosan
%A Banu Bedir
%A Sera Simsek Derelioglu
%A Ozan Barıs Aydin
%A Aysun Aras
%J Turkish journal of Dental Hygiene
%@ 3062-3472
%D 2024
%V 4
%N 1
%R 10.51847/RIM1FBEJpn
%P 15-20
%X Considering the value of oral health as part of public health and the physician's role in community health, the current study was done to investigate the relationship between common dental and oral diseases and general health from the medical student's perspective. In this cross-sectional descriptive research, medical pre-internship and internship students were randomly selected and their level of awareness about common dental and oral diseases and their relationship with general health was examined using a questionnaire. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 23 statistical software. In this research, 191 medical students completed the research questionnaire, of which 52.8% (101 people) were female and 47.1% (90 people) were male. The mean (SD) age was 24.07 (1.92) and their mean (SD) grade point average at the time of the study was 15.95 (1.28). The mean (SD) score of their awareness of oral and dental diseases was 9.79 (3.27) with a 1 to 19 range. There was no statistically significant relationship between the average knowledge score by age, gender, academic semester, and GPA of the subjects (P > 0.05). The findings revealed that the average knowledge score of the subjects studied about common oral diseases and their relationship with general health was weak. Thus, it seems necessary to improve the knowledge level of medical students in this regard by adding the aforementioned topics to the educational curriculum of medical students.
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