A multicenter survey of factors influencing knowledge, attitude and behavior of dentists towards blood borne virus infected patients and associated infection control guidelines

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
SyedHammad Ahsan ◽  
KhalidJamal Howran Alanazi ◽  
ZainaHaif Al-Qahtani ◽  
SaharAdnan Turkistani ◽  
MohammadRiad Siblini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Multicenter Survey ◽  
Infection Control Guidelines ◽  
And Behavior

scholarly journals Dentist Related Factors Associated with Implementation of COVID-19 Protective Measures: A National Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8381
Author(s):  
Joana Christina Carvalho ◽  
Dominique Declerck ◽  
Wolfgang Jacquet ◽  
Peter Bottenberg
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Dental Setting ◽  
Infection Control Guidelines

Little is known about the extent to which dentists have implemented COVID-19 infection control guidelines and the factors influencing this process in daily practice. This national online survey assessed the implementation of enhanced infection control guidelines in daily practice, and explored dentist related factors influencing their application, more specifically dentist infection status and their perceived risk of cross-infection in the dental setting. The survey was validated, pretested and carried out in 2020. A total of 1436 dentists participated, of whom 9.1% presumably had COVID-19 infection experience. At least 75% of dentists complied with the core part of the recommended protective measures protocol. For each patient treated during the pandemic, an additional cost of 10–30 EUR (86.7%) and an extra time of 10–30 min (70.7%) was estimated. A stepwise binary logistic regression analysis revealed that dentists assumed to have experienced COVID-19 reported a higher self-perceived risk of virus acquisition (β = 2.090; p = 0.011), lower concern of getting infected (β = 0.576; p = 0.027), and lower confidence in being able to prevent disease transmission in the dental setting (β = 0.535; p = 0.022). Some parts of the protective measures were more difficult to apply than others; however, there was no indication of increased disease acquisition in the dental setting.

scholarly journals Optometry Australia’s infection control guidelines 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Kerryn M Hart ◽  
Fiona Stapleton ◽  
Nicole Carnt ◽  
Luke Arundel ◽  
Ka-Yee Lian
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Infection Control Guidelines

scholarly journals Brook trout passage performance through culverts

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Goerig ◽  
Theodore Castro-Santos ◽  
Normand Émile Bergeron
Keyword(s):  
Brook Trout ◽  
Salvelinus Fontinalis ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Passive Integrated Transponder ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Steep Slopes ◽  
Corrugated Metal

Culverts can restrict access to habitat for stream-dwelling fishes. We used passive integrated transponder telemetry to quantify passage performance of >1000 wild brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) attempting to pass 13 culverts in Quebec under a range of hydraulic and environmental conditions. Several variables influenced passage success, including complex interactions between physiology and behavior, hydraulics, and structural characteristics. The probability of successful passage was greater through corrugated metal culverts than through smooth ones, particularly among smaller fish. Trout were also more likely to pass at warmer temperatures, but this effect diminished above 15 °C. Passage was impeded at higher flows, through culverts with steep slopes, and those with deep downstream pools. This study provides insight on factors influencing brook trout capacity to pass culverts as well as a model to estimate passage success under various conditions, with an improved resolution and accuracy over existing approaches. It also presents methods that could be used to investigate passage success of other species, with implications for connectivity of the riverscape.

Social Imitation - A Neglected Factor in Psychotherapy?

1972 ◽  
Vol 121 (562) ◽  
pp. 281-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin H. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Homogeneous Groups ◽  
Treatment Regimes ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Overall Effectiveness

The treatment of neurotic emotional responses and behaviour patterns has probably generated more controversies and fewer verifiable observations than any other aspect of psychiatric practice. Tentative hypotheses have been all too quick to take root, expanding into comprehensive theoretical systems, and often obscuring the growth of objective information. Lately, however, a more cautious and empirical attitude appears to be gaining ground. For example, Marks (1971) has pointed out that workers in this field increasingly recognize the presence of factors influencing outcome which are not explained or even contradicted by those concepts and strategies which underlie the techniques employed. Psychotherapists of both behaviourist and psychodynamic persuasions are beginning to express an awareness of the limitations and dangers of a too rigid theoretical approach. Such a movement towards uncommitted empiricism seems a healthy trend. This may be furthered by the more careful examination of specific treatment regimes applied to a variety of diagnostically homogeneous groups of patients, an approach which is clearly preferable to sterile arguments about their relative overall effectiveness in the usual heterogeneous collections of neurotic patients with which the literature abounds. In the recently published Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change (1971), the editors comment on the frequency with which their contributors criticize the lack of replicated studies and the common failure to describe in adequate detail the specific features of patient, method and therapist. From whatever aspect it is viewed, psychotherapy emerges as a complex personal interaction containing many components, all difficult to quantify and unlikely to combine their effects in an easily predictable way.

Systematic review of adherence to infection control guidelines in dentistry

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 509-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.L Gordon ◽  
F.J.T Burke ◽  
J Bagg ◽  
H.S Marlborough ◽  
E.S McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Infection Control ◽  
Infection Control Guidelines

Dentists' Perspectives on Infection Control in Relation to Blood-borne Viruses

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
K. M. Jenkinson ◽  
M. Temple-Smith ◽  
J. Lavery ◽  
S. M. Gifford ◽  
M. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Poor Compliance ◽  
Dental Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Standard Precautions ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Infection Control Guidelines ◽  
Purposive Sample

The prevalence of blood-borne viruses (BBV) continues to increase in Australia, as does the need for vigilant infection control. Despite this, some Australian health practitioners demonstrate poor compliance with recommended infection control practices. The aim of this study was to examine the experiences and attitudes of dentists regarding infection control, patients with BBV, occupational risk, and related matters, and identify reasons for non-compliance with infection control guidelines. A purposive sample of 25 Victorian dentists took part in semi-structured interviews between November 2003 and November 2004. Interviews were taped, transcribed and coded for thematic analysis. The majority of participants expressed compliance with standard precautions; however, many admitted to changing their routine infection control practices for patients known or assumed to have a BBV. Approximately half disclosed minor changes, such as double gloving; a small minority reported having treated people with a BBV at the end of a session. Most participants experienced apprehension about the risk of occupational exposure to BBV and admitted this as the reason for changing infection control practices. Reasons offered by participants for poor compliance included ignorance of either the effectiveness of standard precautions or BBV transmission, or confusion and frustration regarding inadequate or impractical infection control guidelines. It is suggested that infection control guidelines be specifically designed for dental practice, and that these be promoted in both undergraduate dental education and professional development.

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