Abstract
The scope of this article is to verify the factors associated with providing educational guidance related to oral health during prenatal care in the Metropolitan Region of Greater Vitória - ES, Brazil. It involved a cross-sectional study of 1,035 postpartum women in public or affiliated private hospitals in the SUS in 2010. A descriptive analysis of the main educational information and binomial logistic regression was conducted to test the association between individual and contextual variables and “receiving educational guidance through meetings and/or pregnant mother groups in the health unit and/or through home visits”. The information given most during prenatal care was “the advantage of exclusive breastfeeding until six months of life” (52.0%) and least was “the importance of fluoride use in health” (18.9%). Being attended by the Family Health Strategy (FHS) (OR=1.94), having adequate living conditions for women and children (OR=1.73) and an additional prenatal visit (OR=1.08), increased the chance of providing educational guidance in prenatal care. Frequent pre-natal visits, coverage of health services in line with the FHS, and adequate conditions of housing were factors that were positively associated with educational guidance during prenatal care.
Key words
Maternal and child health; Prenatal education; Unified Health System; Family Health