RELATIONSHIP OF DENTAL ANXIETY BETWEEN CHILD AND PARENT DURING DENTAL VISIT

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Journal of the Korean Academy of Pediatric Dentistry 2005;32(2):370-376.
Published online May 31, 2005.

RELATIONSHIP OF DENTAL ANXIETY BETWEEN CHILD AND PARENT DURING DENTAL VISIT

치과 방문 시 어린이와 부모의 치과 불안도의 상관 관계

김성희, 김재곤, 양연미, 권병우, 백병주

전북대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실 및 구강생체과학연구소

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Abstract

In children, dental anxiety of dental treatment has been recognized as a source of problems in patient man agement for many years. Dental anxiety can be causes of negative cooperation, cancel and avoid of dental treatment. Therefore, dentist and dental team should recognize of child's dental anxiety as early as possible and manage appropriately. In previous studies, it is reported that parental dental anxiety affect dental anxiety and cooperation of their child. And it is parental decision which results in a child's visit to the dentist, rather than a child's decision in most cases. Therefore, it is important to identify the relationship of dental anxiety between child and parent. We estimated child's dental anxiety before dental treatment using Venham Picture Scale that is useful even a very young child and parental dental anxiety using Corah's dental anxiety scale. Then, two values above were compared. Child's cooperation, temperament, sex, age, parental education were estimated and compared with dental anxiety, too. The results were as follows: 1. There are positive relationship of dental anxiety between child and parent with the correlation analysis(P<0.02). 2. There are negative relationship of child's dental anxiety and child's cooperation with the correlation and regression analysis(P<0.001). 3. Low anxiety group has lower mean value of four temperament item with the Student's t-test. But, there is no statistical differences(P>0.1). 4. Girl and younger group have higher mean value of dental anxiety than boy and older group with the Student's t-test(P<0.001). 5. Low educated parents have higher mean value of dental anxiety than high educated parents with the Student's t-test(P>0.1).

Key Words: Dental Anxiety, Child, Parent