O conhecimento dos deficientes visuais do ierc-rn em relação à saúde bucal

• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro, Luiz Paulo de Amorim
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/39318
• topic: Saúde bucal; Pessoas com deficiências visuais; Odontologia preventiva

Eyesight is one of the main ways of interacting with the world. Due to this deficiency, visually impaired people develop compensatory mechanisms in other forms such as olfaction, tact, hearing and proprioception. This work investigated the level of knowledge in dental care from 33 visually impaired enrolled at Instituto de Educação e Reabilitação de Cegos do Rio Grande do Norte (IERC-RN) and understood experiences these people had during dental treatment. It is a transversal, quantitative-qualitative study that used interviews. The data collected from the open questions provided a corpus processed by IRAMUTEQ software. Thus, this software categorized the data through hierarchical classification descending on six separate classes. In the classes, questions such as accessibility, nervousness, and anxiety emerged. The analysis of similitude and the cloud of words, both generated by the software, made possible to perceive the main expressions used, difficulties, as well as the connections with dental care and the dental treatment office. The answer to the closed questions revealed that most of the interviewees believe teeth do not last forever; 90% brush their teeth twice or more times a day using specifically a toothbrush and toothpaste; they use dental floss as a secondary procedure. Misconceptions might be surpassed by having them accessing information, creation of educational material directed to this clientele to face their anxieties and stimulating their self-dental care. Simultaneously, the dental care team must be prepared for the assistance to this clientele for patients with special needs demand different skills, much sensitiveness and adequate professional knowledge.