Niloofar Shadman; Shahram Farzin Ebrahimi; Molook Torabi; Sina Safari; Sara Khaleghi; Marzieh Karimi-Afshar
Volume 13, Issue 6 , March 2017, , Pages 598-606
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Background & Objective: Restorative dentistry is a fundamental field in dentistry and students opinions about its education can be helpful in finding its deficiencies and solving them The aim of this study was to evaluate dentistry students attitudes toward restorative dentistry education and its ...
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Background & Objective: Restorative dentistry is a fundamental field in dentistry and students opinions about its education can be helpful in finding its deficiencies and solving them The aim of this study was to evaluate dentistry students attitudes toward restorative dentistry education and its facilities and physical environment Methods: This descriptive crosssectional study was performed on fourth fifth and sixth year students of the School of Dentistry of Kerman University of Medical Sciences Iran The data collection tool was a twopart questionnaire consisting of demographic characteristics form and 38 questions about environment facilities and educational and exam methods and 1 open question scored based on a Likert scale (very appropriate to inappropriate) Data were analyzes using ttest ANOVA and linear regression in SPSS software The significant level was considered as 005 in all tests Results: Among the 110 participates 618% were women and 382% were men The average attitude score (from 26 to 130) was 8486 ± 1130 Overall attitude score was not significantly different between genders academic years and different restorative scores However in the education field the fifth and sixth year students had significantly higher attitude scores than the fourth year students Conclusion: Satisfaction with the clinical and theoretical education of restorative dentistry in the School of Dentistry of Kerman University of Medical Sciences is acceptable but its physical environment and facilities must be improved
Arash Shahravan; Mehrnaz Karimi-Afshar; Molouk Torabi; Sina Safari
Volume 12, Issue 4 , January 2016, , Pages 586-595
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Background & Objective: Dentistry has been widely acknowledged as being associated with high levels of stress This stress originates in the process of dental education The aim of the present study was to evaluate dental environment stress (DES) in students of the School of Dentistry of Kerman University ...
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Background & Objective: Dentistry has been widely acknowledged as being associated with high levels of stress This stress originates in the process of dental education The aim of the present study was to evaluate dental environment stress (DES) in students of the School of Dentistry of Kerman University of Medical Sciences Iran Methods: This crosssectional study was conducted on 165 students Data were collected using the Dental Environment Stress Questionnaire (consisting of 32 items in 6 scales) and demographic information questionnaire Data were analyzed in SPSS software using ttest and ANOVA Pvalue was considered at 5% Results: Of the 165 respondents 533% were women and 782% were single Their mean age was 2363 ± 294 years and mean score was 1605 ± 110 The mean of DES score was 8260 ± 1453 out of a total of 128 In academic factors fear of exam and failure of the course were the most important stressors There was a statistically significant association between mean DES score and gender There was no statistically significant association between mean DES score and marriage status student`s work and priority of field selection Conclusion: The results of the present study were similar to that of previous studies They showed the existence of DES Academic factors were one of the most important stressors
