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Literacia em saúde oral e ortodontia
| Resumo: | Introduction: Health literacy is an important factor for patients' adherence to medicaltreatments and in a way influences them to follow medical instructions as it in a waypromotes skills that encourage people to actively participate in clinical decisions. Oral healthliteracy allows you to prevent diseases and complications in the oral cavity and makedecisions at the right time. Orthodontics, being an area of dentistry, also requires, in a way,the adherence and collaboration of its patients throughout this process.Objective: To assess the level of literacy in oral health in the Portuguese and CapeVerdean population, determine in which literacy is greater, assess the level of knowledgeabout orthodontics and its specialty and see if, in a way, the level of literacy influences theknowledge about orthodontics.Materials and Methods: A total of 104 patients were selected (51 from Cape Verde and 53from Portugal) in the department of stomatology and dental medicine of the Faculty ofMedicine of the University of Coimbra and in several islands of Cape Verde. Statisticalanalysis was performed using the T-student test with a significance level of 5%.Results: In this study, it was found that there were significant associations between theCape Verdean and Portuguese population, since the former has lower literacy inorthodontics and specialty of the same, but these do not show great differences with regardto oral health literacy.Discussion: The level of health literacy is related to the level of education in both populations. Both showed some degree of ignorance about the existence of the orthodontic specialty.Conclusion: This study showed the need to implement literacy plans in oral health and in orthodontics in both countries. |
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| Autores principais: | Rodrigues, Lariça Simone Delgado |
| Assunto: | literacia saúde oral ortodontia especialidade Cabo Verde, Portugal Literacy oral health orthodontics specialty Cape Verde, Portugal |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso embargado |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Coimbra |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra |
| Resumo: | Introduction: Health literacy is an important factor for patients' adherence to medicaltreatments and in a way influences them to follow medical instructions as it in a waypromotes skills that encourage people to actively participate in clinical decisions. Oral healthliteracy allows you to prevent diseases and complications in the oral cavity and makedecisions at the right time. Orthodontics, being an area of dentistry, also requires, in a way,the adherence and collaboration of its patients throughout this process.Objective: To assess the level of literacy in oral health in the Portuguese and CapeVerdean population, determine in which literacy is greater, assess the level of knowledgeabout orthodontics and its specialty and see if, in a way, the level of literacy influences theknowledge about orthodontics.Materials and Methods: A total of 104 patients were selected (51 from Cape Verde and 53from Portugal) in the department of stomatology and dental medicine of the Faculty ofMedicine of the University of Coimbra and in several islands of Cape Verde. Statisticalanalysis was performed using the T-student test with a significance level of 5%.Results: In this study, it was found that there were significant associations between theCape Verdean and Portuguese population, since the former has lower literacy inorthodontics and specialty of the same, but these do not show great differences with regardto oral health literacy.Discussion: The level of health literacy is related to the level of education in both populations. Both showed some degree of ignorance about the existence of the orthodontic specialty.Conclusion: This study showed the need to implement literacy plans in oral health and in orthodontics in both countries. |
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