Nivel de conocimiento sobre higiene en salud bucal de los padres de niños/as menores de 5 años de la parroquia Manú, cantón Saraguro, provincia de Loja
Nivel de conocimiento sobre higiene en salud bucal de los padres de niños/as menores de 5 años de la parroquia Manú, cantón Saraguro, provincia de Loja
-
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.49624270510
-
Palavras-chave: Educación; Higiene dental; infantes; prevención; promoción
-
Keywords: Education; Dental hygiene; infants; prevention; promotion.
-
Abstract: In rural areas of our country there is a high prevalence rate of oral pathologies in children due to poor knowledge regarding oral hygiene, it is essential to act through a set of activities that allow us to reduce its prevalence. The objective of this study was to evaluate the level of knowledge about oral hygiene of the parents of children under 5 years old in the parish of Manú, before and after an oral health program oriented towards promotion and prevention. It was a qualitative, cross-sectional, descriptive and comparative study. Two validated surveys were implemented and the data were processed in the statistical program SPSS v.28.0. Obtaining the following results: there was 100% lack of knowledge prior to the application of the education program; whereas, after it, the level of knowledge increased by 96.6% According to the Kolmogorov Smirnov normality test, it indicates that the results are not parametric, there are significant differences between the results of the pre and post Education surveys. The non-parametric Wilconson test shows a significant change, resulting in P value = 0.000000 being less than 0.05. Furthermore, McNemar's non-parametric test indicates that the treatment applied to improve the level of knowledge worked, the P value = 0.000000 is less than 0.05. Concluding that the oral hygiene education program improved parents' knowledge, allowing the transmission of a culture of promotion and prevention in oral health that contributed to improving the quality of life of this intervention group.
- Diana Ivanova Gahona Carrión
- Claudia Piedra Burneo
- Susana Gonzalez Eras
- Cisne Merino Carrión