Perceptions of dental students about the role of the dentist in the prevention of HPV-OPC
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Abstract
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection is now recognized as an antecedent for the development of cervical cancer and over the last two decades has been increasingly recognized as a major risk factor for oropharyngeal cancer (OPC). The last twenty years have also shown an increase in this type of cancer in the developed world, while tobacco and alcohol related head and neck cancer (HNC) have shown a decline. The trend of HPV-OPC may also have a projected increase in the future, if health promotion roles by dental health professionals are not in sync with these serious trends. Because the increase in HPV-OPC is relatively recent, the general population including many health professionals might not be aware of the magnitude of the problem and therefore may be slow in providing public health messaging and its immediate inclusion into health professional education. Dentists can play a major role in the prevention of the spread of HPV infections, as members of an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. Through the results of this Interpretive Phenomenological (IP) study we attempted to explore the perceptions of dental students about the role and responsibility of the dentist to engage patients in discussions about sensitive lifestyle risk factors such as HPV transmission, including their sexual behaviours, with purposeful discussions about effective preventive strategies such as vaccinations to prevent acquiring HPV infections. This study also explored the current knowledge of dental students' understanding of the HPV-OPC interaction, as well as, gaining insight about their perceptions about their own professional role as health promoters. Findings demonstrated dental students did not have adequate knowledge about HPV-OPC to be able to counsel patients, and were not fully confident about talking about sensitive topics with their patients. Further educational training in this context is recommended for the dental students.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".