Open AccessAwareness of interferon therapy among dental students
Author(s) -
Nithyanandham Masilamani,
Dhanraj Ganapathy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of research in pharmaceutical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0975-7538
DOI - 10.26452/ijrps.v11ispl3.3054
Subject(s) - interferon , medicine , questionnaire , action (physics) , mechanism (biology) , immunology , social science , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , sociology
Interferon is perhaps the term given to antiviral material formed by many vertebrate cells in reaction to viral infections. Research has established a number of mechanisms involved, in therapeutic benefits of interferon together with antiviral, innate immunity-enhancing and functions. This survey was performed for assessing the awareness about interferon therapy amongst dental students. A cross-sectional survey was performed with a self-administered questionnaire with ten queries circulated among 100dental students. The questionnaire assessed the awareness about Interferon therapy, their medicinal uses, anticancer activity, mechanism of action and side effects. The responses were recorded and .91% of the respondents were not aware of medical uses of Interferon therapy .93%were not aware of anticancer activity of Interferon therapy.93 % were not aware of the mechanism of action of Interferon therapy .96% were not aware of side effects of Interferon therapy. The awareness about the use of interferon therapy is very less among dental students. Increased awareness programs and sensitization programs should be conducted to improve the awareness levels.