Designs of epidemiological studies and dynamics of scientific production in academic dissertations at a Colombian school of dentistry
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https://doi.org/10.15332/us.v20i0.2537Keywords:
observational study, cross-sectional studies, academic dissertation, dental schools, studentsAbstract
To determine epidemiological study design and the dynamics of scientific production in academic dissertations presented as a requirement for the undergraduate and graduate programs at the School of Dentistry in Universidad Santo Tomás Seccional Bucaramanga.
A descriptive, cross-sectional observational study was conducted with all academic dissertations from the Faculty of Dentistry published in the Institutional Repository. The information included was taken from the “complete item record” of the 479 documents that were not duplicated and whose publication date was after 2014. The following variables were analyzed: availability in full text, number of student, project´s director name, his/her level of education, number of co-directors, first co-director level of education, year of publication, academic program, type of study, and whether the dissertation had resulted in a scientific publication. Frequencies and proportions were calculated for qualitative variables and measures of central tendency and dispersion for quantitative ones.
It was observed that 338 (71.0%) academic dissertations were published by undergraduate students, and 360 (75.6%) were available in full text. It was found that 252 (52.9%) were observational studies. Of these, 237 (94.1%) were cross-sectional. More than half of the project tutors presented a master's degree. Thirteen (2.7%) academic dissertations were published in nine scientific journals, six of which were Colombian.
It was identified that 237 (94,1%) academic dissertations had a cross-sectional study design.
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