Educational strategies for oral assistance for the disabled and their effects on dentistry students' formation : A systematic review

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AIMS: This systematic review aimed to analyze the influence of educational strategies for oral health care for Persons with disabilities (PwDs) on the technical, ethical, and social training of undergraduate dental students.

METHODS AND RESULTS: An extensive search was performed in the following databases: Cochrane, Embase, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, LILACS/BBO and OpenGrey database. Observational, nonrandomized, and quantitative comparisons before and after some type of educational strategy in undergraduate dentistry was included. The risk of bias was assessed using the risk of bias in nonrandomized intervention studies (ROBINS-I) tool. The certainty of evidence was assessed using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) approach. Nine were included and suggested that a significant improvement was observed in the technical training of undergraduate dental students although there was no consensus on the acquisition of ethical/social competences after the application of educational strategies. The included studies presented a moderate to serious risk of bias, and the certainty of evidence for both, technical and ethical/social evaluative constructs, as very low.

CONCLUSION: Although studies show that awareness regarding PwD significantly increases technical skills in dental students, the evidence is poor due to the high risk of bias and inconsistency observed in both the technical and ethical/social constructs; further studies on this topic are therefore essential. Prospero: (CRD42021288463).

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:44

Enthalten in:

Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry - 44(2024), 2 vom: 31. März, Seite 339-359

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Silva, Fernanda Luiza [VerfasserIn]
Tavares, Sandro Junio de Oliveira [VerfasserIn]
Silveira, Flávia Maia [VerfasserIn]
Antunes, Leonardo Santos [VerfasserIn]
Antunes, Lívia Azeredo Alves [VerfasserIn]
Assaf, Andréa Videira [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Dental care for disabled
Dental education
Dental students
Disabled persons
Journal Article
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 15.03.2024

Date Revised 15.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/scd.12868

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356889173