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AWARENESS AND COMPLIANCE OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN THE FORMATION OF DENTAL HEALTH

T. F. Danilina1, D. V. Mihal chenko1, A. D. Donika1, L .N. Denisenko1, E. V. Danilina2, A. N. Golubev1

1Волгоградский государственный медицинский университет, 2ГУЗ КБ № 5, г. Волгоград

Abstract

Given the urgency of demographic problems and the need to improve the quality of medical care in the national health system conducted a comprehensive study of the socio-psychological motivation of pregnant women to the formation of dental health. The empirical base consisted of the data of a sociological and clinical studies conducted on a model of a group of women in 1 trimester of pregnancy (N = 150, mean age = 24,2 ± 1,4 years), where women with a pathological course of pregnancy iron deficiency anemia (IDA), and women with physiological course of pregnancy, presented in equal ratio. The results of the exit poll show that educational work among various age and social groups of pregnant has a sufficient efficiency (68 %), the majority of respondents (73 %) have significant compliance, realize the importance and necessity of dental care and treatment during pregnancy, giving preference to a competent, qualified professional (56–63 %), coformity degree of trust and willingness to cooperate. However, a significant part of the study group (36 %) do not evaluate enough and (or) to underestimate the importance of the role of a dentist in the formation of dental health of baby and pregnant women, which is especially important in complicated pregnancy on the background of somatic pathology.

Keywords

dental health, a group of pregnant women, awareness, compliance, dental health care.

Contacts

Данилина Татьяна Федоровна – д. м. н., профессор кафедры пропедевтики стоматологических заболеваний, Волгоградский государственный медицинский университет, e-mail: dan4545@yandex.ru