The Evaluation of Dental Anxiety in Primary School Children: A Cross-Sectional Study from Romania
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design and Participants
2.2. Subjective and Objective Measures
2.3. Clinical Evaluation Protocol and Data Collection
2.4. Statistical Analysis
2.5. Ethics Statement
3. Results
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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How Do You Feel about | Happy (Score 1) | OK (Score 2) | Scared (Score 3) |
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1. Sitting in the waiting room? | |||
2. A dentist wearing a mask on his face? | |||
3. Laying flat on the dental chair? | |||
4. A dentist checking your teeth with a mirror? | |||
5. Having a strange taste in your mouth? (from filling material or gloves) | |||
6. Having a “pinch” feeling in your gum? | |||
7. The feeling of numbness (fat lip or tongue)? | |||
8. A dentist cleaning your teeth by buzzy electric arm that is spraying water? | |||
9. The sounds that you hear at the dentist? | |||
10. The smell at the dentist? | |||
11. Having a tooth taken off? | |||
12. Wearing a small rubbery mask on your nose to breath special gas to help you feel comfortable during treatment? | |||
13. Having a “pinch” feeling on the back of your hand? |
Years of Age | Girls n (%) | Boys n (%) | Total n (%) |
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6.4–7.0 | 38 (9.67%) | 42 (10.75%) | 80 (20.42%) |
7.1–8.0 | 50 (12.92%) | 47 (12.02%) | 97 (24.94%) |
8.1–9.0 | 54 (13.97%) | 53 (13.62%) | 107 (27.59%) |
9.1–9.3 | 59 (15.11%) | 46 (11.94%) | 105 (27.05%) |
Total | 201 (51.67%) | 188 (48.33%) | 389 (100%) |
Anxious (ACDAS ≥ 26) | Non-Anxious (ACDAS < 26) | p Value | |
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Girls | 98 | 103 | 0.041 |
Boys | 72 | 116 |
Salivary Cortisol Level (ng/mL) Median and IQR | p Value | ||
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Anxious (ACDAS ≥ 26) | Non-Anxious (ACDAS < 26) | ||
Whole study group | 1.251 (0.916–1.621) | 1.091 (0.907–1.316) | <0.001 |
Girls | 1.24 (0.89–1.794) | 1.02 (0.903–1.275) | 0.014 |
Boys | 1.29 (1.03–1.619) | 1.147 (0.907–1.35) | 0.004 |
p value | 0.5649 | 0.1251 |
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Vlad, R.; Pop, A.M.; Olah, P.; Monea, M. The Evaluation of Dental Anxiety in Primary School Children: A Cross-Sectional Study from Romania. Children 2020, 7, 158. https://doi.org/10.3390/children7100158
Vlad R, Pop AM, Olah P, Monea M. The Evaluation of Dental Anxiety in Primary School Children: A Cross-Sectional Study from Romania. Children. 2020; 7(10):158. https://doi.org/10.3390/children7100158
Chicago/Turabian StyleVlad, Ramona, Anca Maria Pop, Peter Olah, and Monica Monea. 2020. "The Evaluation of Dental Anxiety in Primary School Children: A Cross-Sectional Study from Romania" Children 7, no. 10: 158. https://doi.org/10.3390/children7100158