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COVID-19 AND DENTAL DISTANCE-BASED EDUCATION: students’ perceptions in an Italian University
- Source :
- BMC Medical Education, BMC Medical Education, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, 2021.
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Abstract
- Background The aim of the study was to analyze the perception of dental faculties students regarding the complete transition to distance-based education (DE) and the adaptation of this educational strategy, due to Covid-19 pandemic. A questionnaire to be completed anonymously was submitted online to students attending the faculties of Dentistry and Oral Hygiene at Sapienza, University of Rome, after the end of distance lessons. The collected data were processed statistically, providing descriptive data and analysis of correlation of the most significant parameters, using Chi-squared test, Cramér V and Pearson φ2, Goodman and Kruskal’s γ and λ and Kendall’s τb. The level of statistical significance was p Results A total of 314 students participated in the survey. The overall level of satisfaction on a ten- point scale was 5.39 ± 2.59 for Oral Hygiene students and 6.15 ± 2.98 for Dentistry students. The most common complaints were the lack of a structured online curriculum, less interaction with professors and a lower level of attention. On the basis of the responses, scored using Likert-type Scale, oral Hygiene students reported statistically higher level of physical fatigue(p = 0.0189), a lower level of attention (p = 0.0136) and of the quality and quantity of acquired knowledge during distance education (p = 0.0392), compared to Dentistry students. Level of perceived stress and quality and quantity of acquired knowledge (γ = 0.81 and τb =0.56) and quality and quantity of acquired knowledge and fear of a decrease in knowledge (γ = 0.76 and τb =0.54) are associated variables. Conclusion Students’ feedback is essential to solve the key issues emerged from the questionnaire. New educational models should be define in order to ensure that distance education could be effective, meeting the learning needs of the students, and could not be a merely “online shift” of traditional methods, used as an alternative of live education.
- Subjects :
- 020205 medical informatics
Universities
media_common.quotation_subject
Distance education
COVID-19 pandemic
02 engineering and technology
Oral hygiene
Education
Education, Distance
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Statistical significance
Perception
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Students
Curriculum
Pandemics
media_common
Distance-based education
Medical education
LC8-6691
Descriptive statistics
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
Research
COVID-19
Correction
General Medicine
Special aspects of education
Test (assessment)
Italy
Scale (social sciences)
Dentistry
Medicine
Psychology
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14726920
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Medical Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....42fac5c1499d49dfd056d78954ad42d2