Gözde Nur ERKAN, Özkan ÖZGÜL, Mustafa Ercüment ÖNDER

Diş Hekimliği Hastaları ve Yakınlarının COVID-19 Salgını ile İlgili Bilgi, Tutum ve Algıları

Amaç: Bu kesitsel anket çalışmasının amacı, diş hekimliği hastaları ve yakınlarının koronavirüs hastalığı-2019 (COVID-19) pandemisine yönelik davranış ve öngörüleri hakkında somut sorular aracılığıyla tutum, algı, farkındalık ve bilgi düzeylerini araştırmaktır.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

COVID-19, bilgi, algı, tutum, pandemi

KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS OF DENTISTRY PATIENTS AND THEIR RELATIVES ABOUT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Objective: The purpose of this cross-sectional survey was to investigate the attitudes, perceptions, awareness, and knowledge of dental patients and their relatives through concrete questions about behavior and prediction patterns among the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Keywords:

COVID-19, knowledge, perception, attitude, pandemic,

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