Socioeconomic profile of users and reasons why they seek dental care in teaching clinics
Introduction: educational institutions are in charge of training qualified professional personnel who must be prepared to act in society. Objective: describe the socioeconomic profile of dental clinic users and identify the reasons why they make use of the service. Methods: a cross-sectional qua...
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| author | Fabiana Barros Marinho Maia Fabiana Emer son Tavares de Sousa Vanessa Feitosa Alves Fábio Correia Sampaio Franklin Delano Soares Forte |
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| description | Introduction: educational institutions are in charge of training qualified professional personnel who must be prepared to act in society.
Objective: describe the socioeconomic profile of dental clinic users and identify the reasons why they make use of the service.
Methods: a cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted of clinical cariology records from a higher education institution. 313 records were analyzed in the years 2011-2013. The data collected were sociodemographic variables (age, sex, family income, parents' schooling level) and reasons why they seek care. Data were treated descriptively and subjected to chi-square statistical tests, where 5 % was considered significant.
Results: users' mean age was 6 ± 7.81 years with an even distribution between the sexes: female 50.2 % and male 49.8 %. Most parents had attended school for more than eight years: fathers 67.35 % and mothers 70.43 %. Around 37.75 % of the fathers and 43.9 % of the mothers with more than eight years of schooling go to the clinic for treatment, whereas 29.6 % of the fathers and 26.53 % of the mothers seek preventive care. The relationship found between education and reasons why parents seek care was p= 0.01. As to family income, 49.9 % reported that the family did not receive any, 39.8 % receive minimum wages and 10.4 % get more than one paycheck. Among no-income families, 37 % attend the service in search of treatment and 12.7 % seek preventive care.
Conclusion: the population seeking care at the clinic was the most vulnerable socioeconomically and the reason for attending consultation was treatment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2f6746032cd48c6a4ff1e180401a83f2022-12-21T19:27:34ZengEditorial Ciencias MédicasRevista Cubana de Estomatología0034-75071561-297X2016-06-015321723179Socioeconomic profile of users and reasons why they seek dental care in teaching clinicsFabiana Barros Marinho Maia Fabiana0Emer son Tavares de Sousa1Vanessa Feitosa Alves2Fábio Correia Sampaio3Franklin Delano Soares Forte4Universidade Federal da Paraíba- UFPB, João Pessoa, PBUniversidade Federal da Paraíba- UFPB, João Pessoa, PBUniversidade Federal da Paraíba- UFPB, João Pessoa, PBUniversidade Federal da Paraíba- UFPB, João Pessoa, PBUniversidade Federal da Paraíba- UFPB, João Pessoa, PBIntroduction: educational institutions are in charge of training qualified professional personnel who must be prepared to act in society. Objective: describe the socioeconomic profile of dental clinic users and identify the reasons why they make use of the service. Methods: a cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted of clinical cariology records from a higher education institution. 313 records were analyzed in the years 2011-2013. The data collected were sociodemographic variables (age, sex, family income, parents' schooling level) and reasons why they seek care. Data were treated descriptively and subjected to chi-square statistical tests, where 5 % was considered significant. Results: users' mean age was 6 ± 7.81 years with an even distribution between the sexes: female 50.2 % and male 49.8 %. Most parents had attended school for more than eight years: fathers 67.35 % and mothers 70.43 %. Around 37.75 % of the fathers and 43.9 % of the mothers with more than eight years of schooling go to the clinic for treatment, whereas 29.6 % of the fathers and 26.53 % of the mothers seek preventive care. The relationship found between education and reasons why parents seek care was p= 0.01. As to family income, 49.9 % reported that the family did not receive any, 39.8 % receive minimum wages and 10.4 % get more than one paycheck. Among no-income families, 37 % attend the service in search of treatment and 12.7 % seek preventive care. Conclusion: the population seeking care at the clinic was the most vulnerable socioeconomically and the reason for attending consultation was treatment.http://www.revestomatologia.sld.cu/index.php/est/article/view/739factores socioeconómicossalud bucalatención dental para niños. |
| spellingShingle | Fabiana Barros Marinho Maia Fabiana Emer son Tavares de Sousa Vanessa Feitosa Alves Fábio Correia Sampaio Franklin Delano Soares Forte Socioeconomic profile of users and reasons why they seek dental care in teaching clinics Revista Cubana de Estomatología factores socioeconómicos salud bucal atención dental para niños. |
| title | Socioeconomic profile of users and reasons why they seek dental care in teaching clinics |
| title_full | Socioeconomic profile of users and reasons why they seek dental care in teaching clinics |
| title_fullStr | Socioeconomic profile of users and reasons why they seek dental care in teaching clinics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socioeconomic profile of users and reasons why they seek dental care in teaching clinics |
| title_short | Socioeconomic profile of users and reasons why they seek dental care in teaching clinics |
| title_sort | socioeconomic profile of users and reasons why they seek dental care in teaching clinics |
| topic | factores socioeconómicos salud bucal atención dental para niños. |
| url | http://www.revestomatologia.sld.cu/index.php/est/article/view/739 |
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