Evaluation of a telemonitoring program in dentistry for people with disabilities

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Vilma Inutuka Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Lucy Nunes, Cauhi, Letícia de Paula, Gaioso, Ricardo Arantes, Linhares, Heliana Daher Alves, Marques, Cinthya Isabela Teixeira Paranaíba, Meneses, Igor Almeida de, Campos, Grazziela Santos Oliveira, Sampaio, Thais Nasser, Carvalho, Andreia Assis
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/31419
• topic: People with disabilities; Dental care for disabled; Telemonitoring.; Atención dental para personas con discapacidades; Personas con discapacidad; Televigilancia.; Pessoas com deficiência; Assistência odontológica para pessoas com deficiências; Telemonitoramento.

In the context of the Coronavirus pandemic, the regulation of the use of telemonitoring and teleorientation in Dentistry was released in June 2020 by the Federal Council of Dentistry. The objective of this study was to evaluate the results of telemonitoring, to trace the sociodemographic and epidemiological profile of the patients, to verify the difficulties faced in the execution and the urgent demands . The convenience sample consisted of searching for data in 1643 medical records of patients who received telemonitoring from July to October 2020. A structured script was used to collect sociodemographic and epidemiological data, in addition to questions regarding satisfaction with care in the opinion of the patient. The sample consisted of 57.9% male and 42.1% female. The mean age was 21 years (±16.9). The largest number of patients who received telemonitoring were from the physical disability clinic (81.6%). A small portion of patients (2.6%) did not receive educational audiovisual material due to the lack of receiving devices such as cell phones and computers. COVID-19 (p=0.0001) and who did not receive audiovisual material (p=0.0001). Telemonitoring is a resource that allowed the promotion of health care, in addition to disseminating relevant information to people with disabilities during the pandemic, and is established as a new artifice of health promotion and prevention.