Oral health educative-preventive program at school / Programa educativo-preventivo em saúde bucal na escola

ABSTRACT

This study has the aim of evaluation two different educational methods as explanatory folders and lectures, at theimplementation of an educative-preventive program about oral health developed at elementary public schools in Araraquara (SP) city. The sample was constituted by schoolchildren from fifth and sixth grades of four schools selected by convenience, divided in two groups GA (n=303) that received only the folders and GB (n=245) that read the folders and also attended lectures. A questionnaire was applied before and fifteen days after program. The distribution of frequency was calculated and after that, to intergroup comparison chi-square test was used, and intragroup, the McNemar test (α=0,05). Most of schoolchildren understand that the consumption of sugary food has to be done after main meals and they are able to associate sugar consumption with tooth decay, beyond they do not know that sugar belongs to...

RESUMO

O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar dois diferentes métodos educacionais folheto explicativo e palestras, na implementação de um programa educativo-preventivo sobre saúde bucal em escolas públicas do município de Araraquara (SP). A amostraconstituiu-se de escolares das 5°e 6° séries de quatro escolas, divididos aleatoriamente em dois grupos GA (n=303) - recebeu somente o folheto explicativo; GB (n=245) recebeu folheto e freqüentou palestra. Utilizou-se questionário com 11 questões objetivas, antes e decorridos 15 dias do programa. Realizou-se a distribuição de freqüências e em seguida,a comparação intergrupos pelo teste de qui-quadrado, e intragrupos pelo teste de McNemar (α=0,05). A maioria dosescolares entende que o consumo de alimentos açucarados deve ocorrer após...