Open AccessOral health knowledge, attitude, and self-care practices among pharmacists in Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Mohammad Abdual Baseer,
Mohammed Aleemullah Mehkari,
Fahad AbdulMohsen Fahad Al-Marek,
Omar Ahmad Bajahzar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of international society of preventive and community dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2250-1002
pISSN - 2231-0762
DOI - 10.4103/2231-0762.178739
Subject(s) - medicine , family medicine , pharmacy , descriptive statistics , oral health , positive attitude , health care , spearman's rank correlation coefficient , rank correlation , kruskal–wallis one way analysis of variance , nursing , psychology , mann–whitney u test , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , machine learning , computer science , economics , economic growth
Identifying and addressing gaps in the oral health knowledge, attitude, and practices of pharmacists is important before they can be considered as a member of the oral health promotion team. The aim of this study was to determine the prevailing oral health knowledge, attitude, and self-care practices among a sample of pharmacists from Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia.