Volume 24, Issue 106, November - December, 2020

Oral healthcare attitude among students of a medical university

Muhammad Zahid Iqbal¹, Salah-Ud-Din Khan², Muhammad Shahid Iqbal^3♦

¹Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, 08100, Bedong, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia
²Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
³Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-kharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia.

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-kharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia; Email: m.javed@psau.edu.sa

ABSTRACT

Objective: This study determined the attitude of university students about oral healthcare practices. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the attitude of university students about oral healthcare in a medical university. A self-developed and validated study tool was distributed among the study participants using a convenient stratified sampling technique. The selected participants were students from four faculties of a university. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Version 24.0 was used to analyze the data. Results: Among 324 study participants, 118 (36.4%) students were from faculty of pharmacy, 81 (25.0%) medicine, 67 (20.7%) biotechnology, and 58 (17.9%) were from business faculties. Out of a total of 324 participated students, female students were 234 (72.2%), and male students were 92 (27.8%). Conclusion: Overall, a good and positive attitude was observed regarding oral healthcare practices among the students.

Keywords: oral health, healthcare practices, attitude, students, university

Medical Science, 2020, 24(106), 3891-3900

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