Experiência extramural em hospital público e a promoção da saúde bucal coletiva Outside clinical setting experience in a public hospital and oral health promotion

Abstract

OBJETIVO: Descrever a atividade docente assistencial, cujo objetivo é proporcionar experiência de promoção da saúde bucal coletiva a estudantes concluintes do curso de odontologia. MÉTODOS: Tal experiência fundamenta-se na avaliação do desempenho do aluno, como educador em saúde bucal, à medida que ele tem, entre outras tarefas, a de motivar pacientes internados e seus acompanhantes, na geração de hábitos saudáveis, visando à assistência integral e mais humanizada do paciente hospitalizado. RESULTADOS: Os resultados mostraram que as metas desejadas foram atingidas, visto que a higiene bucal dos pacientes já se tornou uma tarefa incorporada à rotina hospitalar, considerando-se os índices de biofilme dentário: inicial, 1,72; e final, 1,17, respectivamente. Essa diferença, de acordo com a estatística U-Mann-Whitney, mostrou-se significativa, pois o valor de pOBJECTIVE: To describe a teaching aid activity aimed at providing experience for promoting collective oral health to graduating dental students. METHODS: This experience was based on the evaluation of students' performance as oral health educators as they had, among other duties, to motivate inpatients and their families to practice healthy habits aiming at a comprehensive and more human care of hospitalized patients. RESULTS: The results show that oral hygiene was incorporated into hospital routine, evidenced by the differences between baseline and final dental biofilm indices (1.72 and 1.17, respectively). Using the U-Mann-Whitney test, this difference was extremely significant (p<0.001) and reveals that mother-child were highly motivated with respect to oral hygiene. CONCLUSIONS: It is concluded that teaching-learning experiences derived from interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary activities have allowed for a better understanding of the health-disease process by dental students. It is also an opportunity for learning about planning and implementing education-prevention activities, which complement these students' technical-professional experience and promotes social sensitivity, which is essential to professional training.

Keywords

• Saúde bucal
• Promoção da saúde
• Higiene bucal
• Cuidados primários de saúde
• Educação em saúde bucal
• Hospitais públicos
• Estudantes de odontologia
• Oral hygiene
• Oral health
• Health promotion
• Primary health care
• Health education, dental
• Hospitals, public
• Students, dental