Analysis of Brazilian scientific production in Orofacial Motricity

Gabriel Trevizani Depolli,Antonio Lucas Ferreira Feitosa,Roberta Lopes De Castro Martinelli,Marisa Siqueira Brandão Canuto

doi:10.1590/1982-0216/20202253520

Abstract

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the Brazilian scientific production in Orofacial Motricity from the annals of Brazilian congresses and journals in the field of Speech Therapy in the last six years. Methods: for this bibliometric review, data related to the year of production, type of study, Brazilian region/State, modality of higher education institution, event/magazine and presentation format were considered and tabulated. The data were discussed from the perspective of quantitative and representative values. Results: 1,299 studies have been published in the past six years. The highest production was achieved in 2014 and there was a predominance of original studies. Public higher education institutions produced more studies when compared to private ones. The event with the largest number of publications was the Brazilian Congress on Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, and the journal with the largest number of publications was CEFAC Journal. The Southeast region was predominant in publications, followed by the Northeast region. Conclusion: the characterization of scientific production in orofacial motricity allowed us to verify that this is a consolidated area of activity, although it still requires advances.

Highlights

The regulation of speech therapy as a profession boosted the categorization of studies about human communication and its disturbances, defining specific areas[1], among them: Orofacial Motricity (OM), a specialty which focuses on the study, research, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the miofunctional orofacial system, as well as breathing, suction, mastication, swallowing and speaking functions
The analysis showed that the Brazilian research about the theme reflected aspects like anamneses, diagnosis and treatment, in detriment of etiologic factors[3]
The year of 2014 had the biggest number of publications in the Orofacial Motricity in the last six years and there was a decline in production over the last years

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The regulation of speech therapy as a profession boosted the categorization of studies about human communication and its disturbances, defining specific areas[1], among them: Orofacial Motricity (OM), a specialty which focuses on the study, research, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the miofunctional orofacial system, as well as breathing, suction, mastication, swallowing and speaking functions. The analysis showed that the Brazilian research about the theme reflected aspects like anamneses, diagnosis and treatment, in detriment of etiologic factors[3]. Another published research in 2009 performed a new gathering of data equivalent to the period from 2000 to 2005 in all areas of speech therapy, demonstrating that the published researches on OM corresponded to 11.3% of the total, the third area with the biggest amount of scientific material, developing studies reaching children, teenagers and adults, with predominant emphasis in diagnosis and intervention of orofacial disturbances[4]. Based on what was exposed, this study aimed to analyze the Brazilian scientific production in Orofacial Motricity in the records of conferences and Brazilian journals in the area of speech therapy in the last six years

METHODS

LITERATURE REVIEW

Findings

CONCLUSION