Day-to-day representations about practice by dentists in primary care: a scope review of the literature

• Autor(a) principal: Reche, Norma Sueli Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Octaviani, Júlia Vitório, Bulgareli, Jaqueline Vilela, Gondinho, Brunna Verna Castro, Soares, Cassia Baldini, Guerra, Luciane Miranda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/1683
• topic: Primary Health Care; Dentists; Emotions; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Cirurgião-Dentista; Emoções

Although much is known about measurable data on Oral Health in Primary Health Care (PHC), little is known about the individual and subjective aspects of the dental professional. In the performance of their functions, dentists keep in touch with some environmental and technological aspects, and with people in their total complexity. In response, these conditions trigger a series of emotions in the [dentist’s] body, which are consciously expressed through their feelings. Given this scenario, the present study arose from the assumption that dentists have a great deal to say about the everyday representations they have about their job. The objective of this study was to identify the feelings expressed by dentists in their practice in PHC, based on the data that has been produced in the. The scope of the review was chosen due to the limited number of researches in this field. The present study was conducted taking into consideration the twenty essential items and the two optional items of the Prisma Extension for scope reviews presented by Tricco et al. in 2018. The search was conducted in the period from August to October 2020, by using the construction of the mnemonic research question that represented Population, Concept and Context, which was defined as follows: P = Dentists, C = feeling and C = primary care. Based on this study, we were able to perceive the extent to which dental practice was subject to emotions and feelings that were frequently antagonistic and, therefore, it was necessary to examine them in greater depth.