Avaliação do conhecimento dos professores de ensino fundamental sobre Saúde Oral

Abstract

After years working in public health in a municipal school of elementary school, I decided to develop this work, by believing that information on oral health for children have more relevance and importance when developed in character education. The teacher of elementary school is essential in spreading information on oral health for children. In addition to educating you need to motivate health maintenance achieved through work-didactic teaching, since this way it is a language more appropriate to achieve the expected goals. There are two central questions: is the teacher of primary school has sufficient knowledge to identify harmful to oral health habits of their students? These teachers have knowledge to guide them properly to prevent dental? This work has the specific objective: to assess the level of knowledge of teachers of basic education on oral health, needed to develop their educational and preventive in students, motivate them during the daily teaching. There was a field research involving 29 teachers attached to the elementary school children in two units of the public municipal and state of Presidente Prudente-SP. Data collection was conducted through the direct application of a questionnaire containing questions of multiple choice. The organization and quantitative analysis of data were systematized in the form of graphs and analyzed by statistical procedures, while the qualitative analysis was based on literature that support this study. The results showed that both the specific issues regarding the issues on preventive and motivational concepts, the teachers of elementary schools need more clarification and guidance on oral health, confirming their own needs for more information on the subject. It is concluded that the teachers of elementary schools have not received information about oral health during graduation and need more expertise to be able to guide and motivate healthy habits at school everyday. We suggest the development of programs on oral health during the training of teachers of elementary schools, as well as periodic retraining and continues after the formation as demonstrated unknown and lack of teachers on the subject, and good receptivity and interests to acquire this knowledge. Thus, a broader inter-relationship between health and education may help to better train the citizen to acquire knowledge to adequately may apply correctly in their daily habits.