Methods:
60 senior dental students (semester 10 and 11) were randomly selected from the student list and divided randomly into 2 (case and control ) groups (30 student for each group ).for a cased group the designed educational program was performed by a member of oral and maxillofacial surgery department staffs on the patients for all members. The students attitudes and practice were assessed before and after the educatuinal program while their scores sum was calculated .pre test and post test were done for 2 groups, the changes of the students’ scores were statistically analyzed using analysis of variance for the repeated measurements.
Results:
; In the case group, the sum of the attitude and practice scores were 36.37(+ 3.51) before the study was increased to38.57 (+ 3.54) after the education. In the control group, the score of the participants were 35.23 (+4.59) and 37.57(+3.56) before and after the educational program respectively. No statically significant differences were noted in the sum of the attitudes and practice scores of the students before and after learning educational program and also as compared to the control group.
Conclusions:
Regarding to the limited study ,it seems that the practical educational program of the Gow- Gates technique on the patients did not significantly affected attitudes and practice of seniors students of Shahid Beheshti dental school compare to the control group.