Abstract

KUSCH, Anne Marie  and  RUIZ GARCIA, Vilma. Validation and application of an instrument to measure radioprotection knowledge of postgraduate students. Rev. Estomatol. Herediana [online]. 2019, vol.29, n.1, pp.30-38. ISSN 1019-4355.  http://dx.doi.org/10.20453/reh.v29i1.3492.

Objective: Messure the knowledge of postgraduates studens of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) about radiation protection, benefits and risks of auxiliary imaging exams in the period November (2017) to February (2018). Material and Methods: a 20 questions questionnaire was prepared, subsequently was validated by an expert judgement, this was evaluated through V de Aiken (0.89). A test and retest was carried out in 25 postgraduate students, obtaining a Pearson coefficient of 0.89 and a realiability of 0.79 through Cronbach´s alpha. 194 surveys were applied to the students of the 12 different programs of the FE-UPCH, based on the vigesimal system established by the Ministry of Education, those who obtained a final grade greater than or equal to 11 were considered approved. Results: It was observed a greater tendency of knowledge in female sex, in the modality of income via ordinary semi-presential modality vacancy and in the second specialty of oral and maxillofacial semi-face radiology. Conclusions: general knowledge of the postgraduate students of the UPCH regarding radiological protection measures, benefits and risks of the auxiliary exams is good; more than half of them approved the applied questionnaire.

Keywords : Validation studies; knowledge; radiation protection.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )