EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN EDUCATIVE PROGRAM IN ORAL HYIGIENE DIRECTED TO CARETAKERS OF THE ELDERLY PEOPLE FROM TWO ASYLUMS OF THE CITY OF BUCARAMANGA
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https://doi.org/10.15332/us.v5i1.1821Keywords:
Elderly people, Institutionalization, Educative program, Oral hygiene, CaretakersAbstract
Purpose: To design, implement and evaluate an educative program in oral hygiene oriented to the caretakers of the elderly of the asylums San Antonio and San Rafael from the city of Bucaramanga.
Material and methods: A not controlled clinical test was made, selecting by convenience the institution taken part with an educative program; the population was represented by 30 geriatrical caretakers and 105 elderly people resident of these two asylums in the years 2004 -2005, that accepted to participate in the investigation. For the evaluation of categorical variables it was made by means of the statistical tests, square Chi test and exact test of Fisher; whereas to the measured quantitative variables in reason scale test t was applied to them of student and/or nonparametric statistical tests according to its nature and distribution.
Results: In the control group, there were no statistically significant associations between before and after the precise intervention, in opposition in the group in which the educative program was applied.
Conclusions: It is considered that to take part to the caretakers of institutionalized elderly people, with an educative program in sequential and integral form on oral hygiene, it allows to multiply as well and, to create healthful conditions in the greater adults, than they stimulate them to implement care mechanisms.
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