Relación entre CPOD y limitación en comer alimentos en escolares de 12 años de la parroquia El Vecino Cuenca-Ecuador 2016.

Abstract

Objective: know the relationship between the CPOD index and the performance of eating food. Material and methods: Retrospective and documentary descriptive study in which 279 files of the parish El Vecino of the city of Cuenca were reviewed, the same ones that were resting in the department of investigation of the faculty of dentistry of the Catholic University of Cuenca, this with the purpose of knowing the index CPOD and its relation with the performance of eating food, to be able to know the correlation was carried out by means of the statistical test of coefficient of agreement of Kendall. Results: we obtained the relationship between CPOD index and eating performance of the whole studied population, giving a direct and significant positive correlation with Tau Kendall values of 0.163 and the significance of 0.002. Conclusions: high CPOD levels have a direct influence on patients' quality of life, being eating performance one of the most affected, severity will depend on each patient's case.