• María Valeria Jiménez-Báez, Raquel Acuña-Reyes, Didier Cigarroa-Martínez, Enrique Ureña-Bogarín, and Jose David Orgaz-Fernández.
• Coordinación Auxiliar de Investigación en Salud. Jefatura de Prestaciones Médicas. IMSS. Cancún Quintana Roo . México.
• Colomb Medica. 2014 Jul 1; 45 (3): 117121117-21.

ObjectivesDetermine the domain of preventive dentistry in nursing personnel assigned to a primary care unit.MethodsProspective descriptive study, questionnaire validation, and prevalence study. In the first stage, the questionnaire for the practice of preventive dentistry (CPEP, for the term in Spanish) was validated; consistency and reliability were measured by Cronbach's alpha, Pearson's correlation, factor analysis with intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC). In the second stage, the domain in preventive dental nurses was explored.ResultsThe overall internal consistency of CPEP is α= 0.66, ICC= 0.64, CI95%: 0.29-0.87 (p >0.01). Twenty-one subjects in the study, average age 43, 81.0% female, average seniority of 12.5 were included. A total of 71.5% showed weak domain, 28.5% regular domain, and there was no questionnaire with good domain result. The older the subjects were, the smaller the domain; female nurses showed greater mastery of preventive dentistry (29%, CI95%: 0.1-15.1) than male nurses. Public health nurses showed greater mastery with respect to other categories (50%, CI95%: 0.56-2.8).ConclusionsThe CDEP has enough consistency to explore the domain of preventive dentistry in health-care staff. The domain of preventive dentistry in primary care nursing is poor, required to strengthen to provide education in preventive dentistry to the insured population.

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