Social and demographic characterization of the studied
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The National Study of Prevalence of Oral Diseases 2008 was made during the academic year 2005/06 and covered a sample of 2612 children and young people in public, divided into three age groups: 890 children under 6 years of age, 837 children under 12 years old and 885 young people under 15 years old, broken down by sex and by the different health regions of the country, including the autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira.
Given the level of parental education of children and young people between 12 and 15 years old, it was found that the majority had compulsory education, parents with secondary education and higher education accounted for up to 28% of the total number of parents.
The results presented by the study indicates that parents of children under 12 years of age tend to have higher levels of education compared to parents of their 15 years of age, this trend is most noticeable in the mother than the father.
One detail to note is that this finding was not further later in the analysis of final results obtained, since it could allow a relationship between oral health of children and young people and their level of education of parents, this would make possible develop oral health programs specific to certain levels of schooling of its population.
The same can be said about the profession of parents, the report only highlights the fact that most parents perform work at intermediate level, noting that a quarter of mothers of children and young people between 12 and 15 years old be home.
It is clear that the implementation of any program of oral health must take into account the type for which it is intended, the universe of the population of intermediate levels of schooling and / or job insecurity requires a separate action, in terms of programs oral health of the population with high levels of education and / or professionally stable.
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