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| Oral health strategy for the older people in social protection centers in Villavicencio, Colombia | | Author(s) | Claudia Patricia Rodas Avellaneda, María del Pilar Angarita Díaz, Luis Francisco Nemocon Ramírez |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 21, no 3, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 167-177 |
| Source | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/wwop |
| Keywords | Dental problems ; Dental services ; Preventative medicine ; Care homes ; Projects ; Evaluation ; Colombia. |
| Annotation | In Colombia, social protection centres (SPC) are places that provide either permanent or temporary housing for older people. This paper's aim is to design and implement an oral health educational strategy that targeted an older population residing in three SPCs in Villavicencio, Colombia. The first phase aimed to determine the oral health of older people in the SPC. To do this, the research group gathered patients' personal information and indices. The second phase was development of an educational strategy based on the population's requirements. Focusing on oral hygiene and denture care, the strategy was implemented for the older people and their caregivers. In the third and final phase, the research group measured the effect of the designed strategy, by repeating oral diagnoses for the older people six months after strategy implementation. The results of the assessment indicated that implementing a strategy to strengthen oral hygiene care was positive, given that statistically significant reductions were observed in the soft plaque index and the Gingival Index (p<0.05). Because of the population's complexity, the data obtained after the strategy was implemented were significantly reduced. However, these results indicate that an educational strategy can have an effect on this type of population. Implementing a strategy that promotes oral hygiene education and brushing skills fosters good oral behaviour, and helps the older people in SPCs to remember the information taught, thus contributing to their oral hygiene. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170922237 A |
| Classmark | BLA: L8: LK2: KW: 3E: 4C: 7WF |
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