Anxiety Level and Oral Hygiene Practice in Dental Students During Covid-19 Pandemic

Self-assessment of Anxiety Level and Oral Hygiene Practice in Dental Students of Cairo University During Covid-19 Pandemic

Covid-19, the infection caused by a novel corona virus detected in December 2019 in Wuhan (Hubei province), is now a pandemic announced by World Health Organization, raising concerns of widespread panic and increasing anxiety in individuals. This outbreak results in mass quarantine in Egypt since middle of March 2020. Brooks et al. (2019) reviewed and reported quarantine could bring "post traumatic stress symptoms, confusion, and anger. Stressors included longer quarantine duration, infection fears, frustration, boredom, inadequate supplies, inadequate information, financial loss, and stigma.". Many universities decided to suspend in-person classes and evacuate students in responding to the intensifying concerns surrounding Covid-19. This action can lead to negative psychological consequences among college students. Oral health related behavior and attitudes habits correlate with oral health status and can be considered to be its predictors . There is a claim of potential connection between high bacterial load in the mouth and complications associated with Covid-19 infection. Bacteria present in the meta genome of patients severely infected with Covid-19 included high reads for Prevotella, Staphylococcus, and Fusobacterium, all usually commensal organisms of the mouth. Over 80% of patients in ICU exhibited an exceptionally high bacterial load. Accordingly, the investigators assume that good oral hygiene better to be maintained during a Covid-19 outbreak in order to reduce the bacterial load in the mouth and the risk of a bacterial super infection in case of catching the infection .

While there seems to be a common belief that psychosocial stress affects oral hygiene behavior, this assumption has rarely been proved9 Dental students, as the future providers of dental care, are ex¬pected to be role models for their patients regarding the oral hygiene practice and they supposed to be aware of the importance of preserving the oral health. Thus, we intended to select them as our population to study how the level of anxiety during pandemic could affect the practice of oral hygien

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Covid19; Anxiety; Oral Hygiene

Detailed Description

A cross sectional study (survey) will be conducted among dental students in faculty of dentistry Cairo University for the duration of one month from June 2020 to July 2020.

The questionnaire has three parts. The first part included demographic details. The second part included validated general anxiety disorder scale GAD-7. Questionnaire consisting of seven questions which measures students' anxiety level score. Scores of 5, 10, and 15 are taken as the cut-off points for mild, moderate and severe anxiety, respectively. The third part the validated self administered, structured, and close ended 15 questions that assessed the self reported oral hygiene practices 11. The questionnaire forms were kept anonymous. The questionnaire was validated.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 1500

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Cairo, Egypt, 115
    • Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The questionnaire is going to be disseminated as google form to all the Cairo university dental students via emails .

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Student of faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University

Exclusion Criteria:

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Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
correlate between the level of anxiety and the practice of oral hygiene during covid-19 pandemic in dental students of Cairo university	By questionnaire	2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Cairo University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Mai Zakaria, Ph, Lecturer Oral Medicine & Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): November 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 4, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 4, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): July 7, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 10, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 9, 2022
• Last Verified: March 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Covid19; Anxiety; questionnaire; Oral Hygiene Practice; Dental students
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Lung Diseases; COVID-19; Anxiety Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: Mai Zakaria 4

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: individual participant data are not to be shared with other researchers until publication of the study.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No