title: Elementary Schoolteachers' Knowledge and Decision-making Regarding Dental Trauma.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate elementary schoolteachers' knowledge and decision making regarding dental trauma in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire-based survey was conducted among elementary schoolteachers (n=442). Questions encompassed sociodemographic characteristics and decision making regarding dental trauma. Data on the appropriate answer regarding what to do with a traumatised or avulsed tooth were analysed with multiple logistic regressions, adjusting for age, gender, work experience and previous training.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The study population consisted largely of women (90%), was 40 to 49 years old (44.3%) and had more than 15 years of work experience (56.6%). Women (OR=2.68/p=0.041), teachers under 30 years old (OR=4.95/p=0.041), those with more than 15 years of work experience (OR=8.95/p<0.001) or those who had already received previous dental trauma instructions (OR=1.95/ p=0.119) were more likely to choose the appropriate answer for an avulsion situation. Teachers under 30 years old (OR=2.88/ p=0.279), those with more than 15 years of work experience (OR=4.55/p=0.001) or those who had received previous training (OR=3.39/p=0.009) presented higher probabilites of choosing the appropriate answer for a crown fracture event.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Greater work experience or previous instructions on how to approach dental trauma in the school environment were found to be major factors in schoolteachers' decision making regarding dental trauma.
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Junges
authors.forename: Roger Keller
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Celeste
authors.forename: Laís Nicolay
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Pizzatto
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: dos Santos Gatti
authors.forename: Claídes
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Abegg
authors.forename: Susana Maria
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Werner Samuel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003657:Decision Making; D004638:Emergency Treatment; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006267:Health Education, Dental; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D014084:Tooth Avulsion / Q000628:therapy; D019228:Tooth Crown / Q000293:injuries; D014082:Tooth Fractures / Q000628:therapy; D018677:Tooth Injuries / Q000628:therapy*