Open AccessKnowledge and awareness of effective recycling of dental materials and waste management among Peruvian undergraduate students of dentistry: A logistic regression analysis
Author(s) -
Ana María Díaz Soriano,
Walter Gallo,
Silvia Luza,
Arnaldo Munive-Degregori,
Rocío Bocanegra,
Frank Mayta–Tovalino
Publication year - 2020
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/jispcd.jispcd_191_20
Subject(s) - logistic regression , marital status , odds ratio , confidence interval , ordered logit , medicine , dentistry , odds , logit , family medicine , psychology , environmental health , demography , sociology , mathematics , population , statistics
Biomedical waste management and recycling is a very important topic today to preserve the environment, especially at the university level where future specialists in the health sciences are trained. So, the aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and awareness about recycling of dental materials and waste management among Peruvian undergraduate students of dentistry.