Self-perceived oral health and its association with socioeconomic-demographic factors and oral health status in quilombola elderly

• Autor(a) principal: Lira Júnior, Cledinaldo
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Soares, Renata de Souza Coelho, Menezes, Tarciana Nobre de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/18462
• topic: Idosos; Saúde bucal; Índice de Avaliação de Saúde Bucal Geriátrica; Grupo africano de ancestrais continentais.; Ancianos; Salud bucal; Índice de evaluación de la salud oral geriátrica; Grupo africano de ancestros continentales.; Elderly; Oral health; Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index; African continental ancestry group.

Objective: to evaluate the association between self-perceived oral health and oral health status and socioeconomic-demographic factors in quilombola elderly people. Material and methods: This is a cross-sectional study carried out with 47 elderly quilombolas. Dependent variable of self-perceived oral health. The independent variables were the socioeconomic-demographic and oral health variables. The Chi-square or Fisher's Exact Test, Mann-Whitney and Poisson Regression with robust variance were performed, all with a significance level of 5%. Results: The average age of the elderly was 71 years (SD = ± 7.55). Bivariate analysis of the association of self-perceived oral health with              marital status (p = 0.020) and the need to use a prosthesis (p = 0.003). A multivariate analysis using Poisson regression informing the significance for the variable need to use a prosthesis (p <0.0001), therefore, elderly people with a need for a prosthesis prevalence of negative self-perception of oral health 52.3% higher (PR = 1,523; 95%CI = 0.109 - 0.612), when compared to those without the need for a prosthesis. Conclusion: According to the findings of the study, the use of prosthesis seems to benefit from a positive self-perception of oral health in elderly quilombolas.