Impacto da educação em saúde bucal nos cuidados odontológicos da população rural brasileira

Abstract

Health promotion encourages the individual's empowerment and autonomy over their health- disease process, involving actions focused on changing the social determinants of health. When it comes to oral health, in addition to parameters such as healthy eating, hygiene and self-care for the body, social differences and cultural individualities must also be evaluated, especially when located in geographically distant environments, such as rural areas. This is a scoping review of the literature, in which the protocol developed by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) for scoping reviews was used. The LibreOffice writer software was used to form the textual corpus, which was later analyzed with the help of the IRaMuTeQ software. 1,011 studies were found and registered in the Mendeley software. The 42 duplicate articles between the databases were identified and excluded, leaving 969 studies. After reading the titles and abstracts, 707 were excluded because they did not present elements that met the objective of this review. 47 articles remained in the selection, which were read in full. Of these, 41 were excluded because they were not available in full or had not been carried out in Brazil, as well as studies that were not aimed at the rural population. The final selection was made up of 6 studies, covering different age groups. Through this research, the immense gap in studies focused on oral health education for the Brazilian rural population was verified. In this way, the construction of research aimed at this audience becomes emerging.