Comparison of different teaching strategies to improve the knowledge of Dental students about prescribing standards

• Autor(a) principal: Scarpin, Tamires Baptista
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Luciana Butini, Bergamaschi, Cristiane de Cássia, Ramacciato, Juliana Cama, Motta, Rogério Heládio Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/655
• topic: Dental education. Prescription. Dentistry. Teaching.; Educação em Odontologia. Prescrições de Medicamentos. Odontologia. Ensino.

The aim of this study was to evaluate different teaching strategies to improve the knowledge of dental students about prescribing standards. We evaluated 72 students who were randomly separated into 3 groups (n = 24): Group 1 - at each evaluation stage, an explanatory video about prescription rules was presented; Group 2 - the same video was made available on a virtual platform (with unlimited access); Group 3 - control: the students did not have additional activities on the subject. During the study period 4 evaluations were performed, and all participants received a different clinical case to carry out a prescription for the proposed clinical situation. For each prescription performed, a score was given to different items: identification of professional and patient, concentration, dosage and quantity of the medicine, instructions, among others. The results were submitted to statistical analysis and the level of significance was set at 5%.  No significant differences were observed at baseline between groups (p> 0.05). However, after using the strategies better results were observed for G1 when compared with G2 and G3 (p<0.05). It could be concluded that among the strategies used, the use of video was the one that provided an improvement in knowledge of dental students in relation to prescribing standards.