NCT05829954

Body Awareness in Dentistry Students and Working Dentists

The Body Awareness and Its Relationship Musculoskeletal Problems in Dentistry Students and Dentists

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 443 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hacettepe University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Musculoskeletal Diseases
• Body Image
• Dentistry

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	questionnaire	All questionnaire were obtained via online survey system.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-20
• Primary completion: 2023-06-20
• Completion: 2023-08-20
• First posted: 2023-04-26
• Last updated: 2023-09-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)