Dental caries in Brazilian quilombola population: a scoping review
Creators: name: Referino, Adriano
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Protocol’s Title: Dental caries in Brazilian quilombola population: a scoping review Background: African ancestry individuals who were brought to Brazil during the slavery period form Quilombola communities. From this period until today, racism has led to difficulties in accessing health services for these individuals. This reflects in negative consequences for the oral health of this population. In this sense, the literature has made efforts to investigate the aspects related to the oral health conditions of the quilombola population. Specially, dental caries has been the subject of several research studies in these communities. However, there is still no summarization of the knowledge produced on the subject. Until April 2021, there was no record in the Open Science Framework and PROSPERO, nor publication, of a scoping review with a similar approach. Considering this scenario, the present protocol aims to support a study to identify the aspects related dental caries in Brazilian quilombola population. Protocol The research strategy protocol was developed based on the JBI’s Manual for Evidence Synthesis. Identifying the research questions How dental caries was studied in the Brazilian Quilombola population? Eligibility criteria: Studies will be included since (i) it was a peer-reviewed publication; (ii) it aimed was relate to evaluate dental caries condition of quilombola communities; (iii) it was written in English, Portuguese, or Spanish. No year restriction was apply. We will exclude publications with secondary data (e.g., reviews or book chapters), letter to editor, and case reports. There is no date limit. The eligibility criteria are in line with the Joanna Briggs Institute Reviewer’s Manual (Petters et al. 2020), once the detailed inclusion criteria are specified as the Population (quilombola population), Concept (dental caries), Context (Brazilian communities), and types of sources of evidence (peer-reviewed publication). Search strategy and information sources The search strategy will use the association of Boolean descriptors and operators, as follows: (("Risk groups" OR "African Continental Ancestry Group" OR "Ethnic Groups" OR "Ethnicity and Health" OR "Quilombolas") AND ("Oral Health" OR "Dental Health Surveys" OR "Dental Health Services" OR “Dental caries” OR “Tooth decay” OR “teeth decay” OR “Caries” OR “DTMF”)) AND (Brazilian OR Brazil). The following bibliographic databases will be search: Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde (BVS), PUBMED, EMBASE, SCOPUS, Web of Science and SciELO. The final search results of each databases will be export and download in CIW or RIS format. The files will be imported into the online platform of Rayyan QCRI (RRID:SCR_017584), and duplicates will be removed. Selection of sources of evidence For the selection of eligible studies, we will use the Rayyan (Ouzzani et al. 2016). Based on the eligibility criteria, two reviewers (ARSS and NLBL) independently will evaluate the same titles, abstracts, and full text of all publications identified by the searches. The disagreements on study selection and data extraction will be resolve by consensus and discussion with a third reviewer (PHSS), when needed. The intra- and interobserver Kappa coefficients will be perform using 70% of previous identified studies. The selection of sources will be carry out until 14 May 2021. Data charting process Appropriate study data will be condense in tabulated form for each study. We will analyze the variables related to the authors’s name, year of publication, place of development of the research, aims/question, study population/sample size, methodology, intervention type (when applicable), concept, how outcomes are measured, and key findings that relate to the review question. Data extraction: Data will be extract based on the JBI’s Manual for Evidence Synthesis. Two researchers will retrieve the studies from the databases independently. Following the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the studies, previously defined, a third participant will be contact in cases of divergence. The selection of studies will be do in stages. Initially, the studies will be selected by titles and abstracts, and then, by reading the full text.