Abstract

VAZQUEZ GARAY, Fidel; MONCADA SANTOS, Margarita de la Caridad; CANO REYES, Virginia  and  FALCON SALMON, Humberto Cecilio. Social representation of the stomatological services in young people from a health area in Santiago de Cuba. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.11, pp.1338-1347. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive study of 80 young people from 19 to 25 years, belonging to the doctor´s office Number 11 from "Ramón López Peña" Teaching Polyclinic health area in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from February to May, 2015, for which a mixed methodology was used, with a triangulation strategy of data in a quantitative-qualitative sense, in order to determine the social representations of these young people on the stomatological services, after applying a questionnaire and an interview elaborated for this aim. The main results indicated that the social representation of the stomatological services in this population group, was conformed by a figurative nucleus including the recognition of the importance and necessity of the aforementioned service, mostly influenced by the relatives of those interviewed, as well as the existence of emotional states as the tension and fear. The representative field was associated with the discomfort caused by the stomatological procedures, to the presence of tooth decay as main reason for visiting the department and to the demand of care in the Stomatology emergency room

Keywords : social representation of health services; Stomatology department; young people; doctor´s office; primary health care.

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