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GOMES, Leonardo Silva et al. Perception of students of dentistry on abuse in childhood. Odontol. Clín.-Cient. (Online) [online]. 2011, vol.10, n.1, pp. 73-78. ISSN 1677-3888.

OBJECTIVE: To verify the perception of students in 4th and 5th year of Dentistry of State University of Paraiba about child abuse. METHODS: The study was quantitative, descriptive, cross sectional, and used a self-administered semi-structured questionnaire in 91 students in the period from March to June 2010. RESULTS: It was observed that most students knew how to define child abuse properly (65.4%), but none of them knew the correct classification; mouth signs/symptoms were rarely appointed (31.4%); the majority of the sample knew how to inform the approach to be used in cases of child abuse (83.3%); most of the students had little contact with the child abuse theme during their undergraduate course (34.1%); the majority of respondents had interest in learning about the subject (95.6%). CONCLUSIONS: in general, there was a reasonable perception of the academics surveyed about child abuse.

Palavras-chave : violence; child abuse; dentistry students.