Body Awareness in Dentistry Students and Working Dentists

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Body Image; Dentistry; Musculoskeletal Diseases

Treatments: Other: questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05829954

DBA123

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current study aims to comparison the body awareness and musculoskeletal problems of 1st dentistry students, intern students and working dentists and also investigate the factors affecting the body awareness over the years in dentistry profession.

Full description

Dentists also have the highest prevalence among the occupational groups providing health services. More than 60% of dentists have pain in at least one of their body parts.Pain due to musculoskeletal disorders can affect body awareness of person have chronic pain. Body awareness is known as the capacity to distinguish body parts and has an important role in promoting well-coordinated movements. The current study aims to comparison the body awareness and musculoskeletal problems of 1st dentistry students, intern students and working dentists and also investigate the factors affecting the body awareness over the years in dentistry profession.

Enrollment: 443 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The inclusion criteria are being between the ages of 18 and 65 and had been practising dentistry for more than two years for dentists group.

Exclusion criteria

• The exclusion criteria are had a surgical history of vertebral column or any neurological or inflammatory disorders or trauma history.

Trial design

443 participants in 3 patient groups

1st dentistry students

Description:

1st dentistry students

Treatment:

Other: questionnaire

Intern dentistry students

Description:

5th dentistry students

Treatment:

Other: questionnaire

working dentists

Description:

dentists who have worked for at least two years

Treatment:

Other: questionnaire