EVALUACIÓN DE UN PROTOCOLO DE PROTECCIÓN VISUAL Y AUDITIVA EN ESTUDIANTES DE ODONTOLOGÍA

Objective: to design and evaluate a protocol for eye and ear protection for dental students.Methods: a controlled communitarian trail with a sample of 83 students was done. The sample was divided in two groups (experimental and control). A survey of knowledge and an assessment of practices were applied to each group; one week later, the survey was again applied to the control group. After that, the educational material was showed to the experimental group in order to establish knowledge and practice about visual and hearing protection. All the evaluations were done within a week interval. The variables were described using summary or dispersion measures. Chi2, Fisher Exact test or Student’s t test were performed in the bivariate analyses.Results: at initial assessment, control group participants showed greater knowledge that the experimental group (4.3 ± 1.5 vs. 5.2 ± 1.8 p = 0.016), while in the final evaluation the two groups had a similar score (6.2 ± 2.2 vs. 6.5 ± 2.3 p = 6.00). The final score in the experimental group was higher than the control group but there were not significant differences between them (1.9 ± 2.8 vs. 1.2 ± 3.0 p = 0.296).Conclusions: there were no statistically significant differences between the application of the manual and the improvement of practices, possibly because any student did not use hearing protection.

• Autores: Cáceres Sierra, Lizbeth Tatiana; Pérez Sierra, Isabel Teresa; Arias Sarmiento, Diana Carolina; Aránzazu Moya, Gloria Cristina
• Fecha de publicación: 2011
• Institución: Universidad Santo Tomás
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional USTA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.usta.edu.co:11634/37014
• Acceso en línea: http://revistas.ustabuca.edu.co/index.php/USTASALUD_ODONTOLOGIA/article/view/1139; http://hdl.handle.net/11634/37014
• License: Derechos de autor 2018 UstaSalud