Time Management and Dental Hygiene during the Isolation Period in the Context of the “COVID-19” Pandemic

Abstract

This study is an ascertaining one, its purpose being to find out if there is a relationship between time management and oral hygiene in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, during the isolation period. We started from the presumption that people who stay at home, even if they have more free time, will pay special attention to dental hygiene only depending on their time management. The objectives of the study involve exploring the associations between three variables of the oral hygiene dimension and three variables of the time management dimension. The number of respondents was 260, aged between 18 and 82, both from urban areas (67.3%) and from rural areas (32.7%). The participants are predominantly female. To test the hypothesis, we developed and used a questionnaire that addressed issues related to oral hygiene and we adapted and used a time management questionnaire (Indreica, 2019). The obtained results confirmed the existence of an association between the two dimensions, the correlations between their variables being highly significant. The implications and limitations of the research are also summarized in this paper.