"Cuidando da saúde bucal do filho: o significado para um grupo de mães" / Caring the childs oral health: what does it mean for a group of women?
AUTOR(ES)
Liliane Nascimento de Santi
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2003
RESUMO
Caring is an act attributed to feminine gender. Mothers are the main general caretaker of children. They care about food, clothing, education and health. Focusing the childrens oral health promotion the mothering care and a good relation between dentist and mothers are required. This survey aimed at understands mothering meanings about being a caretaker of small children (age from 0 to 6 years) oral health. Its a qualitative research founded on strategic survey. The subjects were ten mothers from Dentistry Graduate Course, Pediatric Dentistry Specialization and Baby Clinic from Ribeirão Preto University UNAERP in Ribeirão Preto City, São Paulo State/Brazil. Semi-structured interview and observation during the treatment were made. Data was analyzed by Contents Analysis proposed by Bardin (1979). Considering the mothers profile: age range from 26 to 39 years, all of them were married or lived with someone, none of them had an official job. Six thematic categories were identified: a) Health: when youre ok health as a foundation; b) Health? Oral health too! d) For a good oral health you must have good habits; d) Health Illness process and its relation with maternal care on oral health; e) Caring about children oral health: what does it mean? And f) Dentist: a reference for oral health care. Mothers perceived health throw biological meanings, but they still emphasize the idea of health as illness absence based on the functional body construction. Oral health seems to be dissociated from general health. Practices toward a good oral health are directed to avoid just one disease the Carie. Mothers also correlate caries occurrence with fails on habit formation. Among all these situations, mothers recognize the dentist as a knowledge resource. They are always ready to do anything to help the professional during the treatment. In this situation, they forget their emotions and fears based on ideas like unconditional mothers love and mothers duty. After all they experienced satisfaction and realization because they solved the childs needs. We conclude that mothers can be multiplicative agents considering educational actions direct to oral health. Mothers actions are not just circumscribed to short proceedings during the treatment, because they delivery daily oral health care at their homes. So we believe that improving the professional abilities, theyll work better with mothers and family individuals. In this way all these people will be responsible for oral health of small children.
ASSUNTO(S)
maternidade cuidador. and caretaker. cuidado saúde bucal infantil child oral health care motherhood
