Estrategia audiovisual para reforzar enseñanza de autocuidado bucal en clínica del niño I universidad Santo Tomás

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Apply an audiovisual strategy to strengthen knowledge on oral health self-care for the children being 4-8 years old, who attend childhood clinic I in Santo Tomas University. METHODS: A quasy-experimental approach before and after the audiovisual exposition. Without group of control. A universe of 213 children attending the pediatric clinic in the second period of 2014, was calculated the sample size of 30 children that attended the pediatric clinic I in the period of 2015. The selection of this sample was possible thanks to the calculation realized in the program EPI-INFO version 3.2.2 of 2004 in the subprogram “Stata. One survey instrument was used for data collection in mode of interview to get the data of the knowledge that children had before and after watching the instructional video. To validate a survey format was realized a pilot test in order to assess the questions, understanding and adequacy of responses. For results was used the Chi2 statistical coefficient for bivariate analysis processed with database in SPSS 21. RESULTS: The knowledge children had about oral hygiene before watching the video was: good, (14 children), Regular, (13 children), bad, (3 children). The knowledge of children after seen the video, seemed to be: Good, (24 children), regular, (4 children), bad, (2 children). Definitely 24 children of the sample size changed their level of knowledge.