Avaliação do estresse na profissão de policial militar e sua relação com as condições de saúde bucal.

Abstract

The military police officer is one of the workers who suffer most from the stress of its profession. It is also known that stress causes both physical and psychological pathologies and these repercussions in the oral cavity. The objective of this study was to correlate stress with poor oral health conditions. This study presented quantitative descriptive and analytical characteristics, with a cross-sectional design, performed with 49 military police officers who make up the 4th CIA-PM, located in the city of Teixeira- PB, in which the inventory of LIPP stress symptoms was used, (2000); The questionnaire of physiological stress reactions according to GREENBERG, (2002) and a clinical evaluation of the oral health conditions of police officers. No stress relationship was found with poor oral health status, however an increase in the CPOD index was observed. 81.6% showed calculus as worse periodontal condition and 6.1% had periodontal pockets. 40.8% reported having Bruxism and 53.1% of the police indicated that they had Temporomandibular Disorder, these last two variables along with the age variable presented a relationship with stress according to the chi-square test of significance. It can be concluded that many police officers are undergoing at least one of the stages of stress with predominance of the resistance phase. All police officers had symptoms related to stress. However, there was no relationship between stress and poor oral health conditions.