Alfabetización en salud oral en adultos mayores de 65 años de la parroquia Cañaribamba, Cuenca - Ecuador 2018.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research was to determine the frequency of alphabetization in oral health in adults over 65 years of age in the Cañaribamba Cuenca - Ecuador parish in the period from August 2017 to April 2018. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The methodology applied. For this study was a descriptive design, field with communication technique, where the barrier survey was conducted to access dental services, for the data collection in the survey was analyzed the STHOFA test, which was entered in the EPI INFO program version 7.2 to obtain our database RESULTS: 263 people who represent 91%, and a very low percentage of the literate population in oral health, being 25 people representing 9%, obtaining a sample of 286 inhabitants surveyed. In the association of variable economic rent and oral literacy can be seen a significant difference with a total population with a low literate income of 14 people with a percentage of 6%, unlike the population with low income and non-literate with 203 people representing 94%. CONCLUSION: The frequency of elderly people who can not read and write in the parish of Cañaribamba is high, the difference between the difference in the level of income and oral health literacy.