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Oral Health-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours of Arab Dental Students: Multi-National Cross-Sectional Study and Literature Analysis 2000–2020
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In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; Volume 19; Issue 3; Pages: 1658 (2022)
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Dental students are the future leaders of oral health in their respective communities; therefore, their oral health-related attitudes and behaviours are of practical value for primary disease prevention. The present study aimed to evaluate oral health-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of dental students in Arab countries and explore the potential sociodemographic predictors of their oral health outcomes. A multi-centre, cross-sectional study was conducted during the academic year 2019/2020 in three Arab countries: Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia. The study used a validated Arabic version of the Hiroshima University Dental Behavioural Inventory (HU-DBI) composed of original twenty items that assess the level of oral health-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours, and four additional dichotomous items related to tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking, problematic internet use, and regular dental check-up The HU-DBI score ranges between 0 and 12. A total of 1430 students took part in this study, out of which 60.8% were females, 57.8% were enrolled in clinical years, 24.5% were tobacco smokers, 7.2% were alcohol drinkers, and 87% reported internet addiction. The mean HU-DBI score was 6.31 ± 1.84, with Lebanon having the highest score (6.67 ± 1.83), followed by Syria (6.38 ± 1.83) and Tunisia (6.05 ± 1.83). Clinical students (6.78 ± 1.70) had higher HU-DBI scores than their preclinical peers (5.97 ± 1.86). The year-over-year analysis revealed that dental public health and preventive dentistry courses had significantly and positively impacted the undergraduate students’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours. The gender-based differences were not statistically significant, with a modest trend favouring males, especially oral health behaviours. Tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking, and problematic internet use were associated with lower HU-DBI scores. In the Arab world, the economic rank of the country where the dental students live/study was weakly correlated with the students’ mean HU-DBI score.
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Arab Countries; attitudes; dental education; dental students; health knowledge; Hiroshima University Dental Behavioural Inventory—HU-DBI; Lebanon; oral health; oral hygiene; practice; Syria; Tunisia
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031658
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of an E-Mental Health Intervention for People Living in Lebanon: Protocol for Two Randomized Controlled Trials ...
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Arabism in Arab(ic) Rap : local languages, translocal references and virtual networks
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Wiedemann, Felix. - : Otto-Friedrich-Universität, 2021. : Bamberg, 2021. : "040000", 2021
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Attitudes toward Teaching English in Lebanon: An Exercise in Critical Applied Linguistics
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Azzi, R. - : University of Exeter, 2021. : Graduate School of Education, 2021
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The production and perception of peripheral geminate/singleton coronal stop contrasts in Arabic
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Les premiers mots de l’enfant libanais en contexte plurilingue : que nous apprend l’utilisation d’un compte rendu parental trilingue ?
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In: ISSN: 0756-7138 ; Lexique ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02898336 ; Lexique, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2020, 26, pp.7-28 ; https://lexique.univ-lille.fr/les-premiers-mots-de-lenfant-libanais-en-contexte-plurilingue-que-nous-apprend-lutilisation-dun-compte-rendu-parental-trilingue.html (2020)
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La enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera a arabófonos : el caso libanés
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The phenomenological significance of dwelling in architecture. The case of Eastern Beka’a Valley - Lebanon
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„Die Stimme ist etwas was wir schaffen und wir müssen sie nutzen“
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Sociolinguistics of LGBTQ+ Discourse across Lebanese Law, NGO Policy, and Mass Media
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The effectiveness of online and on-to-one tutoring in the writing center on the students' achievement: a multiple case study
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In: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences ; 41 ; 192-197 (2018)
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Writing on the "unhealable rift": Exile and (be)longing in Leïla Sebbar and Darina Al Joundi
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Freirean Pedagogy in Beirut’s Migrant Worker Classroom
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In: Pedagogy & (Im)Possibilities across Education Research (PIPER) (2017)
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Religious Peacebuilding: The Life and Work of Archbishop Raya as a Model for Religious Peacebuilding
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Difference and Dissidence: French, Arabic and Cultural Conflict in Lebanon, 1943-1975
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The First Record Of Polyphylla Olivieri (Laporte De Castelanu, 1840) (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) From Lebanon ...
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