Quality of life and need for orthodontic treatment in educational institutions of Huancayo, Peru 2020

• Autores: Bonilla Cairo , Pablo Santiago, Cueva Buendía , Luis Alberto, Jesús Balbín, Evelyn Jeannet
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad Privada de Huancayo Franklin Roosevelt
• Repositorio: Visionarios en ciencia y tecnología
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.uroosevelt.edu.pe:article/86
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.uroosevelt.edu.pe/index.php/VISCT/article/view/86
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

Objective: to determine the relationship between quality of life through COHIP 19 SF and the need for orthodontic treatment through the CE component of INTO in schoolchildren aged 12 to 15 years from two public and private educational entities in Huancayo 2020. Methodology Descriptive, cross-sectional study and comparative, 318 schoolchildren from two educational units, public and private, were evaluated. To assess the level of need for orthodontic treatment, the Orthodontic Treatment Need Index (INTO -CE) was used and for quality of life the Impact Profile index on Children's Oral Health was used in its short version (COHIP SF- 19), the bivariate analysis was carried out using the Spearman Rho Test and a significance level of 0.05 was considered. Results: According to the aesthetic component (CE) of the INTO, the definitive need was 5.3%, moderate need 4.4%, and 90.3% without the need for orthodontic treatment. The quality of life had an average of 54.3, for social and emotional well-being its average was 27.1, functional well-being of 12.5 and oral health was 14.6. Conclusions: There is a moderate negative correlation between quality of life and the need for orthodontic treatment (CE) in schoolchildren aged 12 to 15 years from two public and private educational units in the city of Huancayo 2020, the quality of life was low, being higher in women than men with statistically significant difference (Rho -0.635; p-value 0.023).