TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dreher, Stefanie
A1  - Weberschock, Tobias Bernd
A1  - Giraki, Maria
A1  - Uhse, Alexander
A1  - Parvini, Puria
A1  - Rüttermann, Stefan
A1  - Gerhardt-Szép, Susanne
T1  - Dental training in evidence-based dentistry : a replication study
T2  - Journal of dental problems and solutions
N2  - Background: In the area of education research, it is well-known that studies of a defi ned question are seldom replicated. Furthermore, e-learning resources with evidence-based content in dentistry have received relatively little attention from researchers.
The Context and Purpose of the Study: The aim of this clinical study was to evaluate how dentistry students from two consecutive cohorts in their fi rst clinical semester rate a long-standing evidencebased dentistry (EbD) resource in an e-learning environment using a questionnaire of 43 specifi c items on 1) general questions regarding user-friendliness and acceptability, as well as 2) specifi c questions on content and functional range (A), handling and technical aspects (B), and didactics and educational value (C) based on a Likert scale from 0 = ‘strongly disagree’ to 3 = ‘strongly agree’, and how this compares to a primary study in which the resource was addressed as a novelty. The data were analyzed statistically using a one-way ANOVA followed by a Kruskal-Wallis multiple-comparison Z-test.
Results: A response rate of 100% was achieved. The majority of the users thought the topic of EbD to be important. The e-learning resource was rated with a score of 2.40 ± 0.66 (on a Likert scale from 1-6 where 1 = "very good" and 6 = "insuffi cient"). 86.15% of the students stated that they consider the resource benefi cial for their study in clinical simulation and in patient treatment courses. The results averaged for A: 1.92 (±0.57; median: 1.928), B: 1.48 (±0.60), and C: 2.27 (±0.67). The obtained results in the replication study showed no statistical signifi cant differences to the primary study.
Conclusions: The e-learning resource with dentistry vignettes cases and learning components on evidence-based principles was consistently rated positively by the students. Owing to their agreement with the data of the primary study, the results of the present study point to the remarkable validity of the method of evaluation. This should be addressed in future studies with larger cohorts.
KW  - Replication study
KW  - E-Learning
KW  - Dentistry
KW  - Evidence-based medicine
KW  - Evidence-based dentistry
KW  - Scientifi c competence
KW  - National catalogue of competence-based learning objectives in dentistry
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44758
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-447582
UR  - https://www.peertechz.com/articles/dental-training-in-evidence-based-dentistry-a-replication-study.pdf
SN  - 2394-8418
N1  - Copyright: © 2017 Dreher S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
SP  - 066
EP  - 071
PB  - Peertechz Publications Pvt. Ltd.
CY  - Indien
ER  -