Iranian dental students' knowledge of and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS patients

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 740-745

  Sadeghi, Mostafa ^a,b   Hakimi, Hamid ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Rafsanjan University   (Iran)

Author keywords

AIDS; Attitudes; Dental students; HIV; Iran; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; APHTHOUS STOMATITIS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; IRAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOUTH TUMOR; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; THRUSH;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CANDIDIASIS, ORAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARE FOR CHRONICALLY ILL; EDUCATION, DENTAL; ETHICS, DENTAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL, DENTAL; IRAN; MALE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SEX FACTORS; STOMATITIS, APHTHOUS; STUDENTS, DENTAL;

EID: 67650759632     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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