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The Effect Of Education On Oral Health Students’ Attitudes In Australia And New Zealand, Liyana Tanny, Takashi Komabayashi, D. Leann Long, Yoshio Yahata, Susan M. Moffat, Helen Tãne Dec 2016

The Effect Of Education On Oral Health Students’ Attitudes In Australia And New Zealand, Liyana Tanny, Takashi Komabayashi, D. Leann Long, Yoshio Yahata, Susan M. Moffat, Helen Tãne

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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the oral health attitudes and behavior of students in the oral health curriculum in Australia and New Zealand. Materials and Methods: The Hiroshima University ‑ Dental Behavioral Inventory was administered to students in the first (year 1) and final years (year 3) of the oral health curriculum at Charles Sturt University in Australia and the University of Otago in New Zealand. A total of fifty‑two year 1 students and forty‑five year 3 students completed English version of the questionnaire in 2013. The responses were statistically analyzed by Fisher’s exact tests and …