QUALITY OF DENTAL SERVICES: ASSOCIATION WITH SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND SELF-PERCEPTION CHARACTERISTICS

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  • Douglas Emanuel Maciel da Silva
  • Camila Casimiro Siciliani
  • Juline Manica Desordi
  • Francini de Oliveira Rodrigues
  • Christiane de Fátima Colet
  • Adriane Cristina Bernat Kolankiewicz

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https://doi.org/10.1590/ce.v29i0.96262

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Quality of Health Care, Dental Health Services, Primary Health Care, Perception, Dentistry.

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Objective: To associate sociodemographic variables with the self-perception of primary health care users.

Method: Cross-sectional study with 222 users of dental services from 15 primary care units in a medium-sized city in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Questionnaires with sociodemographic profile, self-perception, and the Primary Care Assessment Tool Brasil oral health were used. For comparisons of t-Student test scores for independent groups and ANOVA (one way) – Post Hoc Sheffé.

Results: Users with lower family income (p=0.016), lower education (p=0.027), and who needed to make or replace dental prostheses (p=0.020) showed a significant association in the attribute of service utilization. Regarding accessibility, the variables toothache (p=0.021) and satisfaction with oral health (p<0.001) showed significant associations. In the information system attribute, the higher the number of queries (p=0.012), the better the score.

Conclusion: Significant associations were found between sociodemographic variables and self-perception of oral health with the mean scores.

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11-09-2024

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Silva, D. E. M. da, Siciliani, C. C., Desordi, J. M., Rodrigues, F. de O., Colet, C. de F., & Kolankiewicz, A. C. B. (2024). QUALITY OF DENTAL SERVICES: ASSOCIATION WITH SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND SELF-PERCEPTION CHARACTERISTICS. Cogitare Enfermagem, 29. https://doi.org/10.1590/ce.v29i0.96262

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