Relato de experiência de um projeto de extensão com crianças diabéticas – promoção de saúde, classificação de risco e referenciamento

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease very prevalent nowadays, and the incidence in child population has been increasing progressively. The extension project “Oral health education for diabetic children of the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic, Clinical Hospital (HC), Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU)” has the primary grounding based on the implementation of health education care for children with diabetes mellitus, from the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic, of HC UFU, as well as the reference of the children that need dental for the Dental Hospital, of UFU´s Dental School, of UFU treatment using treatment Dentistry for the Dental Hospital (HO UFU). This experience report covers the period from May 2019 to December 2019. The project consisted of 34 undergraduate students, being 21 of Pitágoras Faculty and 13 of UFU´s Dental School, 5 professors and 2 physicians. Health promotion was carried out through lectures, circles of conversation, educational toys and drawings, to achieve oral health of children undergoing treatment and their guardians. Therefore, 93 children were evaluated, being 44 classified as risk 1, 18 as risk 2 and 31 as risk 3, whereas the risk 3 classified participants were referred to the discipline´s clinic of Human Health Unit 5 (USH5). In this way, the project managed to achieve an expressive number of diabetic children under treatment at the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic of UFU, as well as their guardians. The activities enable the greater contact between students and the population, bringing them closer to the real expectations of the human subjects involved. It was also possible to identify the presence of caries’ activity and the family’s hygiene habits, as well as problematize the diabetics patients’ reality for the clinical dental practice. Foreseen, the project made possible the development of health awareness for the social actors involved, so that they could have greater autonomy in their own health care.