Perception and preventive behaviors on the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) among dental nurses under the Ministry of Public Health
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This survey study was aimed to describe the perception and preventative behaviors for the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). Moreover, the relation between the perception of chance exposure from work, disease severity, and organizational support for COVID-19 were compared with preventive behaviors among dental nurses under the Ministry of Public Health. The sample size was 378 dental nurses. Data were collected through online-questionnaires, which had a coefficient alpha of 0.70 and 0.86 and a disease prevention behavior with KR20 reported at 0.70. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, independent t-test and the Chi-square test.
The results show public dental health officers was the highest degree of understanding concerning the chance of exposure through work and of the disease severity for COVID-19. And the perception for organization support was high degree. The differences between dental nurses working in a hospital compared to those working in health promoting hospital were statistically significant for the perception of organization support (p-value < 0.01). Work experience shows statistically significant on the perception of disease severity (p-value < 0.05). Additionally, for COVID-19 disease prevention, among the dental workplaces shows statistical significance for eating hot food /cooked fresh (X2 = 4.985, p-value = 0.026) and avoiding crowds (X2 = 6.538, p-value= 0.011) with the value of significant different of 0.05. The relationship between all perception aspects and for COVID-19 disease prevention between dental public health offices shown very low statistical significance for the positive direction with a significant difference value at 0.01 level. Therefore, the findings suggest organizations should provide continuous, up-to-date: training (self-care, routine/non-routine work situations), and personal protection equipment at all service levels.
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