Relação entre função mastigatória, disfunção temporomandibular e qualidade de vida em professores do ensino superior durante a pandemia de Covid-19

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Cordeiro, Andriélen Lactiane Coronel
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; Brasil; Fonoaudiologia; UFSM; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana; Centro de Ciências da Saúde
• Palavras-chave em Português: Disfunção temporomandibular; Mastigação; Covid-19; Docentes; Qualidade de vida; Temporomandibular disorder; Mastication; Faculty; Quality of life; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::FONOAUDIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/34614

This dissertation aimed to investigate whether there was a relationship between masticatory function and temporomandibular disorders (TMD) in higher education faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a field, quantitative, cross-sectional, exploratory, non-experimental and descriptive research, with a final sample of 21 university faculty of both sexes, aged between 26 and 62 years (mean age 39.14 years). Initial contact was made through digital invitations during the pandemic. The volunteers answered an online questionnaire with data on eligibility criteria and were later evaluated in person. A clinical speech-language evaluation was carried out using the OMES-E and MGBR protocols, for the analysis of the aspects that were of interest to the research. Evaluation of ATM and TMD, using the DC/TMD protocol. An electromyographic evaluation was carried out by capturing the electrical activity of the masticatory muscles (masseters and anterior temporalis) during situations of rest, maximum voluntary contraction and mastication. The instrument used was the Miotool 400 equipment (8 channels). To assess quality of life, the SF-36 questionnaire was used, in which the values range from 0 to 100, and the higher the score, the better the quality of life. The analysis involved the Shapiro-Wilks Test to investigate the normality of the findings. Next, the Chi-Square test, Student's t test, U-Mann-Whitney test, d'Cohen test and Spearmann test were applied, all considering a significance level of 5%. As main results it was verified that most of the faculty teachers presented anterior bite incision, normal occlusion, the alternating bilateral chewing pattern. As for the electrical activity of the masticatory muscles, it showed greater activity in males during MVC and mastication of the right masseter, compared to females. 57.14% of teachers had a positive diagnosis for TMD and, of these, 66.66% had more than one diagnosis. Female teachers had lower scores in the domain of functional capacity. Teachers with TMD had lower scores in the domain of general health and pain. It was concluded that there was no relationship between mastication and electrical activity of masticatory muscles in higher education faculty with and without TMD. However, there was an association between quality of life and TMD in higher education faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic.