Risk Perception and Preparedness of Undergraduate Dental Students to Treat Patients in View of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Questionnaire Survey

Table 2

Risk perception of the study population.

Variable		N (%)
(1) How do you perceive COVID-19?	Very dangerous	210 (69.8%)
	Moderately dangerous	90 (29.9%)
	Not dangerous	1 (0.3%)
(2) COVID-19 symptoms often resolve with time and do not require any special treatment.	Yes	181 (60.1%)
	No	120 (39.9%)
(3) Do you prefer to avoid working with a patient who is a suspect of COVID-19?	Yes	221 (73.4%)
	No	80 (26.6%)
(4) In case a patient was sneezing or coughing in your clinic, what would you do?	Refuse treating the patient and ask him/her to leave the clinic	22 (7.3%)
	Treat the patient and ask him/her to go to the hospital	121 (40.2%)
	Refer the patient to the hospital without treating him/her	158 (52.5%)
(5) Are you afraid of becoming infected with COVID-19 as a healthcare professional working at close range with the patient?	Yes	166 (55.1%)
	No	37 (12.3%)
	Not sure	98 (32.6%)
(6) Do you fear that you will transmit COVID-19 to friends and family members?	Strongly agree	139 (46.2%)
	Agree	154 (51.2%)
	Disagree	8 (2.7%)
	Strongly disagree	0
(7) Do you think, it is not safe to work with the standard precautions which were followed before the onset of COVID-19 pandemic?	Strongly agree	119 (39.5%)
	Agree	145 (48.2%)
	Disagree	32 (10.6%)
	Strongly disagree	5 (1.7%)
(8) Do you feel the crisis of COVID-19 pandemic increased your workload?	Strongly agree	93 (30.9%)
	Agree	119 (39.5%)
	Disagree	69 (22.9%)
	Strongly disagree	20 (6.6%)
(9) In which clinical department posting are you most concerned about accidental exposure to COVID-19 during treatment?	Oral medicine and radiology	12 (4%)
	Conservative dentistry and endodontics	149 (49.5%)
	Periodontics	55 (20.1%)
	Oral and maxillofacial surgery	60 (19.9%)
	Prosthodontics	16 (5.3%)
	Pedodontics	0
	Orthodontics	0
	Public health dentistry	5 (1.7%)
(10) Would you hesitate to treat a patient who came for dental treatment after recovering from COVID-19 infection?	Yes	28 (9.3%)
	No	168 (55.8%)
	Not sure	105 (34.9%)
	Total	301 (100%)