Verificação da abordagem do conteúdo de periodontia em provas de concursos públicos na Paraíba.

Abstract

The public tender is one of the best forms of insertion of the dental surgeon in the public health service, constituting one of the main means to select the professionals who work in the family health strategy. Periodontics is of great importance for the dynamics of care in primary health care, since periodontal disease is one of the most prevalent oral diseases among the Brazilian population. The objective of this study was to verify and analyze the periodontal content covered in public tenders of Paraíba through the analysis and classification of questions. The exams were retrieved through a search on a free access website, which provides evidence of competitions in Brazil, the PCI public tender. Questions were extracted that dealt with the subjects of the area of periodontics of available public notice of selective held and closed, from all cities in the state of Paraíba to the position of dentist surgeon of the Family Health Program between the years 2001 and 2018. Of all the state were collected 124 public notice of selective exam and when applying the exclusion criteria were removed 3 repeated tests, totaling 121. After analyzing these, 4,840 questions were obtained to the total, of these 2,496 corresponded to the specific knowledge to the position of dental surgeon and 156; 6%, were about periodontal. The questions were classified according to the generic topic that is treated and cognitive level that required according to the Revised Taxonomy BLOOM. The results indicated that the topic of etiology of periodontal diseases was the one with the highest prevalence corresponding to 23% of the questions, followed by the topic of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plan with 21%. In the classification by cognitive dimensions according to the Revised Taxonomy of Bloom, remember was the one with the highest occurrence, corresponding to 48% of the questions, followed by the apply dimension with 29%. It was concluded that the questions of etiology of periodontal diseases and of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plan were the most addressed in public examinations in the context of periodontics and that the cognitive dimensions to remember and apply were the most required in the public notice of selective exam. More complex cognitive dimensions presented low prevalence.