Attitudes of Peruvian dentist about rubber dam isolation. Design and validation of a scale in COVID-19 times

• Autor(a) principal: Cossio Alva, Bryan Alexis
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Portocarrero-Mondragón, Juan Pablo, Corrales-Reyes, Ibraín Enrique, Mamani-Benito, Oscar Javier, Carranza-Esteban, Renzo Felipe
• Tipo de documento: preprint
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: SciELO Preprints
• Texto Completo: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/3214
• topic: Validation study; Attitude; Dentists; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; Estudio de validación; Actitud; Odontólogos; Encuestas y cuestionarios; Reproductibilidad de los resultados

Introduction: Ruber dam isolation is a dental procedure that guarantees the biosafety and the quality of the restorative treatments; however, doesn't exist an appropriate instrument to evaluate on the topic in the Peruvian reality. Aim: To design and to validate a scale for evaluating the attitudes of Peruvian dentist about rubber dam isolation. Materials and Methods: Technology development study. The scale was administered through social networks to 279 dentists (143 females and 136 males) from a non-probabilistic purposive sampling, whose ages ranged between 22 and 67 years. Results: Aiken's V coefficient values were favorable for all items. Exploratory factor analysis indicated the existence of a single factor. Confirmatory factor analysis suggested eliminating items 1 and 7. The reliability of the scale was good and was calculated with Cronbach's α coefficient=0.71. Conclusion: The scale on the attitudes of Peruvian dentist about rubber dam isolation (Act- AA-Cov19) is a brief, valid and reliable measure that can be used for research purposes.