Comprehensive care strategy at El Guayabo Penitentiary Center

• Crispin-Rodríguez , Douglas ; Crispin-Castellanos, Douglas ^[1] ; Ledesma-Céspedes , Nila ^[2] ; Reyes-Cortiña , Gisier ^[2] ; Lamorú-Pardo , Antonia María ^[3] ; Ivonnet-Gutiérrez , Ennis ^[4]
  1. [1] Universidad de la Isla de la Juventud “Jesús Montané Oropesa”. Isla de la Juventud, Cuba
  2. [2] Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Isla de la Juventud. Policlínico Docente Universitario “Orestes Falls Oñate”. Isla de la Juventud, Cuba
  3. [3] Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Isla de la Juventud. Policlínico Docente Universitario “Juan Manuel Páez Inchausti”. Isla de la Juventud, Cuba
  4. [4] Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Isla de la Juventud. Isla de la Juventud, Cuba

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• Localización: Community and Interculturality in Dialogue, ISSN-e 3008-7570, Vol. 4, Nº. 0, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Community and Interculturality in Dialogue)
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  • Introduction: this research is based on the framework of comprehensive oral health care for people deprived of liberty, to ensure that health services ensure their continuity of care, with a quality of care similar to that accessed by the population does not have this limitation. Objective: to develop a comprehensive oral health care strategy at the “El Guayabo” Penitentiary Center on the Isla de la Juventud from October 2021 to October 2022. Methods: an intervention study was carried out on 227 inmates, matching the universe and the sample. The variables were taken into account: age, oral diseases, level of oral health knowledge, oral health knowledge survey and results of the strategy. With prior informed consent, a survey of knowledge of oral health, Stomatological Clinical History, curative and rehabilitative treatment was carried out on each of the patients who were part of the research. Results: before the intervention was applied, dental caries and poor level of knowledge predominated in 71,3 % and 66,9 % of the inmates respectively; managing to reduce the prevalence of dental caries and improve the level of knowledge to be regulated in the majority of inmates after applying the educational strategy; In addition, 47 % of the sample was cured. Conclusions: the implementation of the comprehensive oral health care strategy had a significant impact on the reduction of oral diseases among inmates