Conocimiento de los profesionales de la salud en Villavicencio acerca de los protocolos de atención en pacientes con labio y paladar fisurado

Abstract

Currently there are protocols for the management of patients with LPF, the importance of this lies in the knowledge of health professionals who work interdisciplinary in them. To determine the knowledge that health professionals have about the care protocols for patients with LPF in the city of Villavicencio in the year 2020-1. Descriptive cross-sectional, field study, with convenience sampling made up of 70 health professionals, having selection criteria and approval by the ethics committee of the Antonio Nariño University, Villavicencio headquarters. A questionnaire of 24 closed questions was prepared, Consisting of 6 multidisciplinary components, with inclusion criteria. Statistical analysis was performed using frequency tables with the statistical software SPSS version 25, with a standard error of 5%. Of the professionals surveyed, it was observed that the highest percentage of participants was 41.4% corresponding to Dentists, 58.6% (n = 41) of the respondents, had not been in direct contact with this population, and finally 85, 7% of professionals do not have an institutional guide for the management of these malformations.