Elderly caregivers profile and oral health perception
The aim of this study was to evaluate the profile and the oral health perception of elderly caregivers who in charge of giving assistance to three benefiting institutions in the city of Araçatuba, Brazil. A form was filled in by the interviewers according to the caregivers' answers. In relation...
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Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp)
2007-01-01
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| author | Nemre Adas Saliba Suzely Adas Saliba Moimaz Jeidson Antônio Morais Marques Rosana Leal do Prado Luciana Reichert da Silva Assunção Juliana Reichert Assunção Tonelli |
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| description | The aim of this study was to evaluate the profile and the oral health perception of elderly caregivers who in charge of giving assistance to three benefiting institutions in the city of Araçatuba, Brazil. A form was filled in by the interviewers according to the caregivers' answers. In relation to schooling level, 83.3% have a nurse aid's technician course and 16.7% don't present any type of technical formation. More than half of the interviewed caregivers (61.11%) reported that they started working for necessity, not for affinity. It was detected lack of oral health perception which showed that most of the caregivers need more knowledge of the most prevalent oral diseases. Most of them (55.56%) believe that tooth loosing is part of aging. According to the obtained results, it was proved that caregivers need more information about oral health related to elderly. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ebdba39aad5d464689e54e519474262e2022-12-22T00:20:26ZengFaculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp)Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação1414-32832007-01-013se10.1590/S1414-32832007000100017S1414-32832007000100017Elderly caregivers profile and oral health perceptionNemre Adas Saliba0Suzely Adas Saliba Moimaz1Jeidson Antônio Morais Marques2Rosana Leal do Prado3Luciana Reichert da Silva AssunçãoJuliana Reichert Assunção TonelliSão Paulo State UniversitySão Paulo State UniversitySão Paulo State UniversitySão Paulo State UniversityThe aim of this study was to evaluate the profile and the oral health perception of elderly caregivers who in charge of giving assistance to three benefiting institutions in the city of Araçatuba, Brazil. A form was filled in by the interviewers according to the caregivers' answers. In relation to schooling level, 83.3% have a nurse aid's technician course and 16.7% don't present any type of technical formation. More than half of the interviewed caregivers (61.11%) reported that they started working for necessity, not for affinity. It was detected lack of oral health perception which showed that most of the caregivers need more knowledge of the most prevalent oral diseases. Most of them (55.56%) believe that tooth loosing is part of aging. According to the obtained results, it was proved that caregivers need more information about oral health related to elderly.http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-32832007000100017&lng=en&tlng=enancianocuidadoressalud bucal |
| spellingShingle | Nemre Adas Saliba Suzely Adas Saliba Moimaz Jeidson Antônio Morais Marques Rosana Leal do Prado Luciana Reichert da Silva Assunção Juliana Reichert Assunção Tonelli Elderly caregivers profile and oral health perception Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação anciano cuidadores salud bucal |
| title | Elderly caregivers profile and oral health perception |
| title_full | Elderly caregivers profile and oral health perception |
| title_fullStr | Elderly caregivers profile and oral health perception |
| title_full_unstemmed | Elderly caregivers profile and oral health perception |
| title_short | Elderly caregivers profile and oral health perception |
| title_sort | elderly caregivers profile and oral health perception |
| topic | anciano cuidadores salud bucal |
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