Evaluation of a preventive educational program for malocclusions: 7-year study
| Autor: | Sandrine Bittencourt Berger, Antonio Ferelle, Paula Vanessa Pedron Oltramari-Navarro, Cássio Alexandre Zeri de Oliveira, Marília Franco Punhagui, Beatriz Brandão Scarpelli |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Parents Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors media_common.quotation_subject Breastfeeding 03 medical and health sciences Habits 0302 clinical medicine Legal Guardians 030225 pediatrics Statistical significance medicine Humans General Materials Science Health Education Dental Care for Children media_common Retrospective Studies business.industry Infant Reproducibility of Results 030206 dentistry medicine.disease Pacifiers lcsh:RK1-715 Family medicine lcsh:Dentistry Child Preschool Sucking Behavior Pacifier Abandonment (emotional) Educational Status Health Education Dental Health education Female Habit Malocclusion business Educational program Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Brazilian Oral Research, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Article number: e119, Published: 28 NOV 2016 Brazilian Oral Research v.30 n.1 2016 Brazilian Oral Research Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica (SBPqO) instacron:SBPQO Brazilian Oral Research, Vol 30, Iss 1 |
| Popis: | This study aimed at evaluating the Protocol for the Prevention of Malocclusions (PPM), established in the preventive educational program developed by the Public Infant Oral Health Program of the State University of Londrina (PIOHP-UEL). Guardians of three-year-olds or older, maintaining nutritive (bottle) and/or non-nutritive (pacifier and finger) sucking habits, attended meetings designed to alert and guide them to eliminating these habits from their children. PPM patient records (2006–2013) were assessed and the data were described and evaluated by the Chi-square test, with a 5% significance level. Results 506 of the 802 guardians/children referred to the PPM joined. As for the children, the most frequently assessed habits were: bottle (56.1%), bottle and pacifier (18.4%), finger (11.9%), bottle and finger (7.1%), pacifier (5.7%), pacifier and finger (0.6%), and bottle/pacifier/finger (0.2%). After parent participation in the meetings, 335 (66.2%) children abandoned their habits. There was a statistical difference between type of oral habit and time to abandonment (p = 0.0001). However, those with only one habit abandoned it more easily (72.6%) than those with two or more associated habits (48.1%) (p = 0.042). Presence or absence of breastfeeding and parents’ level of education had no significant effect on habit abandonment. Conclusion PPM was an important tool for spreading knowledge to guardians, greatly contributing to the abandonment of deleterious oral habits. Bottle sucking warrants special attention - mentioned by 81.8% of parents - either alone or associated with other habits. Thus, educational actions to implement the children’s approach to oral health are fundamental to making behavioral changes and promoting education of healthy habits, thereby keeping malocclusions from developing. |
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