Bojan Milosevic, Alberto Leardini, Elisabetta Farella
Kinect and wearable inertial sensors for motor rehabilitation programs at home: state of the art and an experimental comparison
Biomedical engineering online
purpose disaster victim identification dvi service requires knowledge confidence attitude kca readiness purpose study assess allied dental students perceived kca regarding dvi skills topicsmethods convenience sample senior dental hygiene students n27 senior dental assistant students n14 recruited email presented mismatched simulated antemortem postmortem pm bitewing radiographs asked indicate correct matches collectively participants made 205 radiographic matches indicated 205 degrees certainty binarily positive possible one per match participants also completed researcher designed pretestposttest electronic survey seven 3point likertscale items answer options slightly moderately extremely regarding selfperceived knowledge statistical analyses conducted r software using 005 significance levelresults total n41 students participated yielding response rate 854 onesided linear trend test revealed statistically significant increases perceived confidence knowledge pretest posttest regarding forensic odontologists role dvi p00001 dvi applications mass fatality incidents mfi p00001 role dental radiology dvi p00001 dental morphology applications dvi p00001 participants indicated moderate extreme confidence personal clinical skillsets assist forensic odontologists dvi onesided fishers exact test revealed statistically significant p005 positive association expressed degree certainty confidence correct radiographic matches onesided linear trend test revealed statistically significant p00001 improvements attitude regarding participants perceived importance respective professions volunteer dviconclusion participants study reported significant improvements selfperceived kca regarding dvi skills topics characteristics may encourage allied dental professionals pursue dvi educational opportunities future service support needed mfi