Open AccessAttention to COVID-19 Pandemic among Dental Experts of Kerala State, India: A Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Study
Author(s) -
Amritha Aravind,
Samyukta Nair,
T. K. Aparna,
Arun Thomas,
Sajna Oommen,
Aravind A Vijayan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_831_20
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , government (linguistics) , alertness , dental practice , medicine , family medicine , state (computer science) , disease , psychology , dentistry , medical education , infectious disease (medical specialty) , psychiatry , pathology , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
Dentists are the common preys for the transmission of pandemic disease because of the airborne spread via routine dental checkups. This study which is a cross-sectional one gives the idea about awareness and alertness of dentists about COVID-19 in Kerala, India.