Las actitudes y los comportamientos sobre salud bucal en estudiantes de odontología de la universidad Santo Tomás de acuerdo al inventario de hiroshima

Abstract

In this paper, it was taken into account the stocktaking (HU-DBI) from the Hiroshima University, with the actual objective of testing the attitudes and behavior related to the oral health in the dentistry students from the VI to the X semester of the University Santo Tomás (USTA), trying to compare the scores of the behavior and attitudes, according to socio-demographic variables. According the information above, it was made an observational-analytic study and cross-section in students of sixth and tenth semester who were taking Clinics subject. The total of students who were observed, it was 271. And in the results, it was found that women showed higher score (7.6 – 1.69) over men (7.1 – 1.7), and it was not appreciated significant associations according to the gender. While per each semester approved, it was observed differences in statistics with a higher average score for the semester VII (8.1 – 1.5) and the semester X (8.5 – 1.3), and lower score for the semester VI (6.8 – 1.7) and for the semester VIII (7.1 – 1.6). It was concluded that the attitudes and the behavior related to the oral health, measured by the HU-DBI, in the students of the dentistry program of the University Santo Tomás registered an average of 7.5 – 1.7 in the score, similar to the one registered by the students of the dentistry program in other places of the world.