IMPACTO DE UN PROGRAMA DE PROMOCIÓN DE HIGIENE DE LA LENGUA EN ADULTOS MAYORES INSTITUCIONALIZADOS DE BUCARAMANGA

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of a tongue hygiene program in institutional elderly of Bucaramanga.Materials and methods: A randomized clinical trial study was done. The sample was integrated by 50 adults, The control group: twenty four older. Intervention group: 26 elderly, assigned randomly. Sociodemographic variables, tissues related to oral hygiene, qualitative and quantitative tongue hygienic before and after the program were collected. By statistical analysis these variables were compared according intervention group, for the qualitative variables Chi square and Fischer Exact test and for the quantitative t Student and Wilcoxon rank test were applied, level of significance to 0.05.Results: Between control and intervention group statistically significant differences were observed. Quantitative index the means of oral hygienic index in the intervention group was 65.6 and in the control 135.7. The qualitative evaluation of the level of tongue hygiene, also allows to demonstrate statistically significant associations (p=0.001). Of the total of people with heavy cover, 95% (20) were in no intervention group and 5% to intervention group.Conclusion: The implementation of a tongue hygienic program in the elderly reduces the cover of the layer of the language in the intervention group compared with no intervention group.

• Autores: Gómez, Yury Andrea; Junca P., Angela; Gutiérrez, Diana Zulay; Salazar Á., Lyda; Concha Sánchez, Sonia Constanza
• Fecha de publicación: 2008
• Institución: Universidad Santo Tomás
• Repositorio: Universidad Santo Tomás
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.usta.edu.co:11634/37060
• Acceso en línea: http://revistas.ustabuca.edu.co/index.php/USTASALUD_ODONTOLOGIA/article/view/1187; http://hdl.handle.net/11634/37060
• License: Derechos de autor 2018 UstaSalud