Research –Oriented Knowledge, Attitude and Practices amongst Dental Students and House Surgeons.

Abstract

The objective of the study was to evaluate research-oriented Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices amongst undergraduates and house surgeons of Dental College. Karachi. A cross-sectional study was conducted amongst undergraduate Dental students and house surgeons during the time between November-December 2018. Ethical approval was obtained from the ethical committee. The students from 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year, final year and house surgeons were included in the study.  Sample size was calculated by taking 50% prevalence rate and computed using open Epi version 3.03 at 95% confidence interval and =5%. The sample size obtained was 243. A convenience sampling technique was employed and a pretested Questionnaire was distributed to the dental students and house surgeons and were informed about the purpose of the study. The study included 243 undergraduate dental students and house surgeons out of which 84 were males and 159 were females. Forty six (90.2%) of the 2nd year students responded “yes” when asked about confident in interpreting and writing research paper. One hundred and five (41.2%) of the respondents preferred Google scholar for literature search. The present study concluded that most of the undergraduate students had more knowledge regarding research than house surgeons.