Atitude do cirurgião dentista frente ao atendimento de pacientes HIV positivos em salvador.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The objective of this study was to evaluate the attitude of Dentists in the city of Salvador, BA, in the face of the treatment of patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV), as well their knowledge of the probability of contamination and primary care subsequent to an accident with a cutting instrument. It deals about a cross-sectional study involving a probability sampling of 230 professionals chosen from a list provided by the Regional Odontology Council (CRO-BA). A self-questionnaire was used in order to collect data, following a pilot-study and research approval from the Ethics in Research Committee of the Climério de Oliveira Maternity Hospital of the Federal University of Bahia. A descriptive analysis of the variables was carried out, and the frequency of the answers by the professionals was exploratorily estimated according to the co variables of interest, assessing the differences between the categories through the chi square test and statistic significance test at level 5%. It was observed that 41.2% of the professionals who perform procedures that cause bleeding in their clinical practice would not attend HIV-positive patients in those procedures. The main reason for this attitude was the fear of contamination (59.13%). As for the knowledge about the odds of infection subsequent to accidents with cutting instruments which contain HIV-contaminated blood, it was observed that only 8.8% answered the question correctly. As to the primary care to be adopted in an occupational accident situation involving HIV-contaminated cutting instruments, it was observed that only 8% answered correctly. The results suggest the professionals negative attitude towards attending HIVpositive patients in the performance of procedures that cause bleeding is not associated to gender, marital status, years of experience, titles and income. Statistic significance was noticed in the association with the occupational bond variable, evidencing that dentists who perform their practice in private clinics show a lower degree of reluctance to attend HIVpositive patients. The results of the present study suggest that the conduct adopted by the Dentist in view of the decision to attend an HIV-positive patient does not depend upon sociodemographical and occupational characteristics, except for occupational bond. Key-words: attitude, AIDS, HIV, Dentists, occupational accident.

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cirurgião dentista aids aids occupational accident atitude acidente ocupacional dentists clinica odontologica hiv hiv attitude

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