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Education and professional autonomy of dental hygienists in the Czech Republic and abroad
Filchakov, Dmytro ; Sádovská, Diana (advisor) ; Jiroutová, Olga (referee)
This bachelor thesis is dedicated to questions of dental hygienists' education and professional autonomy in the Czech Republic and abroad. The analyse of legal regulations, entry level education and educational programs in dental hygiene in the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, the Slovak Republic is present in this work. A part of the thesis is also analyse of professional autonomy of mid-level healthcare specialists and specifically dental hygienists. Purpose: The purpose of this research was to examine attitudes of Czech dentists and dental hygienists towards questions of dental hygienists' professional autonomy and education in the Czech Republic, the goal was also to discover the level of professional autonomy of Czech dental hygienists. Methods: Two similar questionnaires were distributed through social networking service facebook.com and emails to dentists and dental hygienists to discover their views and attitudes towards education, present and future educational programs in dental hygiene, type of cooperation between dental hygienists and dentists, the scope of practice of dental hygienists and possibility of its widening. The third type of questionnaire distributed only to dental hygienists was based on Likert scale and...
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