PERCEPTION OF DENTAL CARE: COMPARISON BETWEEN PREGNANT ADULTS WOMEN AND ADOLESCENTS

Authors

  • Constanza Marín Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
  • Célio Afonso Rieg Maçaneiro Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
  • Elisabete Rabaldo Bottan Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
  • Felipe Vavassori Universidade da Região de Joinville

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13037/ras.vol13n46.3099

Keywords:

Pregnant women, oral health, health promotion.

Abstract

Introduction: Information on the knowledge of pregnant women about oral health enables a proper planningof health promotion activities during pregnancy. Objective: To know the perceptions of pregnantwomen about dental treatment during pregnancy and identify if there is influence of age on the manifestationof these perceptions. Methods: Transversal descriptive research. Two groups were randomly constituted:adult pregnant and pregnant adolescents. The instrument for data collection was a self-applicablequestionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics; the chi-square test was applied (p<0.01).Results: A total of 112 pregnant adults and 80 adolescents participated in this study. The average age ofgroup 1 was 27.43 years and the group 2 was 16.6 years. In both groups the majority owned high school.The fear of dental appointment was revealed by 29.7% of the surveyed and 34.4% do not make dentalappointment at this stage. The most reported monthly income in both groups was up to three minimumwages. Adolescents reported the higher frequency of dental appointments and not to be afraid of dentalappointments during pregnancy, although this difference was not statistically significant. The most reportedfear of the participants of both groups was anesthesia. Adolescents showed better knowledge; in three of the four issues of the cognitive field, such difference is statistically significant. Conclusion: Fears aboutthe dental treatment during pregnancy has been identified at low frequency in the sample. Age exertedinfluence on most of the answers of the cognitive field and in two of the mentioned fears.

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Author Biographies

Constanza Marín, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí

Doutora em Periodontia e Especialista em Saúde Coletiva; Professora da Universidade do Vale do Itajaí – UNIVALI e da Universidade da Região de Joinville - UNIVILLE e Pesquisadora do Grupo Atenção à Saúde Individual e Coletiva do Curso de Odontologia da Universidade do Vale do Itajaí - UNIVALI.  - E-mail: constanzamarin4@gmail.com

Célio Afonso Rieg Maçaneiro, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí

Graduando do curso de  Odontologia da Universidade do Vale do Itajaí – UNIVALI.

Bolsista de Iniciação Científica.

Elisabete Rabaldo Bottan, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí

Mestrado em Educação e Ciências pela UFSC.

Doutorado (inconcluso) em Educação e Ciências pela UFSC

Professora do curso de Odontologia da UNIVALI

Integrante do Grupo de Pesquisa Atenção à Saúde Individual e Coletiva em Odontologia.

 

Felipe Vavassori, Universidade da Região de Joinville

Graduando em Odontologia da Universidade da Região de Joinville - UNIVILLE.

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Published

2015-10-06

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Vol. 13 No. 46 (2015): Revista de Atenção à Saúde

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