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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| 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. |
| 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%). |
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