Resumo

LIMA, Daniela Salvador Marques de et al. Knowledge of students of dentistry on eating disorders - a pilot study. Odontol. Clín.-Cient. (Online) [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.4, pp. 819-823. ISSN 1677-3888.

Eating disorders are characterized by severe disturbances in eating behavior that can present along with several systemic disorders related to impaired nutritional status, cause changes in the oral cavity. The objective of this study was to to evaluate the knowledge of students in dentistry, on the topic Eating Disorders, as well as validate the data collection instrument. Initially there was the face validity, which occurred in a pretest with 20 students. Then participated in the study 102 Dental students from two colleges in the State of Pernambuco. The reproducibility index was performed with a sample of 82 students. According to the values in the interpretation of the results of Kappa scores obtained from moderate to high concordance correlation. All students had some degree of knowledge and interest about the topic, predominantly moderate, both knowledge and interest.

Palavras-chave : Eating disorders; Oral Health; Dentist..