Biosafety and knowledge about crossinfection among undergraduate dentistry students in a public Brazilian university
International Journal of Development Research
Biosafety and knowledge about crossinfection among undergraduate dentistry students in a public Brazilian university
Received 20th July, 2020; Received in revised form 19th August, 2020; Accepted 16th September, 2020; Published online 30th October, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Izabelly Tacconi Arruda et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Biosafety is a generalconcern in health service, including dentistry, once the infection control, mainly the cross infection, is extremely important. Nowadays, the world is facing the new coronavirus pandemic and following the standards and measures that protect professionals, patients and the population is essential. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge of dental students of a public Brazilian university about biosafety and disinfection processes to control the cross contamination and how they deal with it, especially during COVID-19 crisis. The study was realized based on self applied questionnaire, answered by 129 students of Dentistry Clinic in a public Brazilian university. As a result, it was observed that the knowledge about biosafety increases according to academics’ evolution in the graduation. It was clear, with the analysis, that there are some points to reforce and improve, but they can be easily solved by the university. Besides that, the students have shown sufficient and appropriated knowledge to avoid risks of contamination and cross infection in certain health activities.
