Conhecimento de alunos concluintes de pedagogia sobre saúde bucal

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Ariella Azevedo
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USC
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.usc.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/234
• topic: PROFESSORES; EDUCAÇÃO EM SAÚDE BUCAL; SAÚDE ESCOLAR; TEACHER; ORAL HEALTH EDUCATION; SCHOOL HEALTH; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

Professional who stays in the school environment has direct influence on attitudes and habits of children. Thus, teachers should have a large variety of knowledge about healthy habits and life style to transmit it to their students. The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and perception of students of Pedagogy (University of North Parana State UENP) about oral health. The sample was constituted by 68 students who answered a questionnaire. Data were analyzed and the results showed that the students of Pedagogy (72.73%) received some information about oral hygiene in some moment of their course. According to them (54.55%), dental caries is not a disease and it appears due inadequate oral hygiene associated to excessive consumption of sugar (59.09%). Biofilm is considered an yellow mass (45,45%) that should be removed by dentist (95.45%). We conclude that there is a need to convey knowledge about disease prevention and oral health maintenance for teacher training in order to turn them into multipliers health