Evaluación de la actividad educativa de promoción y prevención desarrollado por los estudiantes de odontología en el instituto la cumbre sede b

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to evaluate the educational promotion and prevention activity carried out at the La Cumbre Sede B Institute by the second semester dentistry students of the USTA, comparing it with a group of children of the same characteristics of an institution not intervened A cross-sectional analytical observational study was carried out; This study was carried out in 86 first grade students, 43 of them from the institute of the B-based summit (intervened) and 43 from the Gonzalo Jiménez Navas school (control). Two instruments were applied to the children, one to evaluate knowledge about the oral cavity and another to evaluate the oral hygiene practices used by the children, based on the theme worked within the educational activities and topics developed by the students of the USTA . As a result of this research, it was found that the educational activity has not had the expected impact on the students of the institute, the intervened summit, given the comparative results showed a favorable difference with the children not so significant in relation to those obtained with the population not The intervention was the Gonzalo Jiménez Navas school, in which they have not received any teaching on oral cavity or oral health.