Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Health Care Ethics Among Medical, Dental and Nursing Colleges Students and Faculty in Visakhapatnam: A Questionnaire Study

Pratyusha Chatti; Vineela Parlapalli; Siva Kumar Pydi; Nagarjuna Pottem; Karishma Janapareddy; Adithya Teja Prasad Pallekonda

doi:10.26440/IHRJ/0405.08283

Pratyusha Chatti https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6806-3401
Vineela Parlapalli https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3498-6325
Siva Kumar Pydi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8027-6597
Nagarjuna Pottem https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0541-5320
Karishma Janapareddy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9189-3075
Adithya Teja Prasad Pallekonda https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5720-9361

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26440/IHRJ/0405.08283

Keywords: Ethics, Knowledge, Attitude, Questionnaire, Students, Faculty

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Dental ethics revolves around the extent to which actions within the dental practice promote good and reduce harm.AIM: The study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice among the medical, dental, and nursing college students and faculty Visakhapatnam.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: The 26-item questionnaire, self-administered, semi-structured, was designed to access the student's and faculty's knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the globe of healthcare ethics. With all the exclusion and inclusion criteria, the total sample derived as 1190. Statistical analysis was done using the SPSS Software Version 21.0 with the significant p-value at ≤ 0.05. Descriptive statistics, chi-Square test and ANOVA test used to compare the knowledge attitude and practice of dental, medical, and nursing students and faculty.
RESULTS: Out of 1,190 participants, 456 participants belonged to medical out of which 239 are females, and 217 are males, 424 participants are from the specialty dental, 248 are females, and 176 are 310 participants belong to nursing in which 230 females and 80 males. The knowledge and attitude of dental college interns and postgraduates showed no significant difference in the Hippocratic oath, Nuremberg code, ICMR guidelines, Helsinki declaration with p-value 0.971, 0.899, 0.506, and 0.768. The knowledge and attitude of medical college interns and postgraduates showed a significant difference in the Hippocratic oath, Nuremberg code, ICMR guidelines with p-values 0.002, 0.040 and 0.011, respectively. The knowledge and attitude of final years showed considerable differences from the third years of nursing.
CONCLUSION: The knowledge and attitude of health care ethics are significantly more in medical postgraduates than the medical interns, showed no significant difference in dental interns and graduates, and showed significant differences in nursing students.

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Author Biographies

Pratyusha Chatti

Post Graduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Dental Sciences, Sangivalasa, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam (Dt), Andhra Pradesh-531163

Vineela Parlapalli

Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Dental Sciences, Sangivalasa, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam (Dt), Andhra Pradesh-531163

Siva Kumar Pydi

Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Dental Sciences, Sangivalasa, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam (Dt), Andhra Pradesh-531163

Nagarjuna Pottem

Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Dental Sciences, Sangivalasa, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam (Dt), Andhra Pradesh-531163

Karishma Janapareddy

Post Graduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Dental Sciences, Sangivalasa, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam (Dt), Andhra Pradesh-531163

Adithya Teja Prasad Pallekonda

Post Graduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Dental Sciences, Sangivalasa, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam (Dt), Andhra Pradesh-531163

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