Prevalence of the special needs of patients served in a type III CEO of a reference hospital in Brazil

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Patients with Special Needs seen at the pediatric outpatient clinic of a type III CEO.Method: Descriptive cross-sectional study carried out by surveying 1,384 clinical records of patients from 0 to 19 years of age, with confirmed diagnoses of...

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Authors: Rosendo, Camila de Paula, Oliveira, Niviane Marielly da Costa, Freitas , Rebeca Luiz de, Kozmhinsky, Veronica Maria da Rocha, Colares, Viviane
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI)
Repository:Research, Society and Development
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/12097
Online Access:https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/12097
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Dental care for disabled
Epidemiology
Pediatric dentistry
Dental caries.
Atención dental para personas con discapacidades
Epidemiología
Odontología pediatrica
Caries dental.
Assistência odontológica para pessoas com deficiências
Epidemiologia
Odontopediatria
Cárie dentária.
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Summary:The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Patients with Special Needs seen at the pediatric outpatient clinic of a type III CEO.Method: Descriptive cross-sectional study carried out by surveying 1,384 clinical records of patients from 0 to 19 years of age, with confirmed diagnoses of some special need and attended from June to September 2018.  Information collected from medical records such as: the registration number, sex, age, origin, the type of special needs and the history of caries experience. Then, the classification was applied according to the diagnosed pathology, elaborated by Santos & Haddad. Results: Most patients were male (58.2%) and lived in the Metropolitan Region of Recife (51.4%). Regarding special needs, it was found that the highest percentages correspond to patients with Congenital Defects (27.4%), Chronic Systemic Diseases (21.1%), Special Physiological States (15.2%), Physical Defects (14, 7%), Sensory and Audio-communication Defects (8.5%), Behavioral Deviations (4.8%), Intelligence Deviations (4.3%), Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases (3.6%) and Deviations Psychic (0.2%).