title: [Risk perception in a group of dentists from Abruzzo].
abstract: Dentist's office represents an area with high infectious risk both for workers and patients. With our study we tried to analyse the relationship between dentists and prevention. We studied 104 dentists who had to answer to a questionnaire composed by 25 questions on topics such as job management, risk perception, measures adopted for prevention and knowledge about normatives regarding safety at work. From the answers we can conclude that dentists know the risk present in their work and use correctly the individual preventive dispositives; make blood control to test hepatitis markers, in particular HCV. But only 68% made HBV vaccination. Many dentists,even if they know the way of transmission of HIV, avoid to cure positive patient.
authors.affiliation: Corso di Laurea in Tecniche della Prevenzione nell'Ambiente e nei Luoghi di Lavoro, Università "G. D'Annunzio, Chieti.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Travaglini
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shahaj
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Durante
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Luca
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Di Donato
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Di Giampaolo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Forcella
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boscolo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Di Giampaolo
mesh_terms: D003813:Dentistry; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D019552:Infection Control, Dental; D007558:Italy; D018570:Risk Assessment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires