THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PARENTAL ANXIETY AND CHILD BEHAVIOUR DURING SIMPLE RESTORATIVE TREATMENT: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY. | ||
| Egyptian Dental Journal | ||
| Volume 71, Issue 4 - Serial Number 1, October 2025, Pages 2783-2789 PDF (270.22 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/edj.2025.394623.3508 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Farah Magdy Guirgis* 1; Sara Ahmed Mahmoud2; Mai Mohamed Ali3 | ||
| 1B.D.S, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. | ||
| 2Professor of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University. | ||
| 3Lecturer of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Aim: This study was carried out to identify the prevalence of parental anxiety, identify the prevalence of child anxiety, and assess the association between parental anxiety and child behavior during simple restorative treatment. Subjects and methods: In this cross-sectional study, a validated questionnaire was used to examine the correlation between parental anxiety and child behavior during simple restorative treatment for 158 children aged 4 to 6 years old at their first dental appointment. The parental anxiety was evaluated with the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale. The child anxiety was examined using the Modified Venham Picture Test. The child behavior was documented after the treatment using the Venham Behavior Rating Scale. Results: The prevalence of parental anxiety was 41.77% (n = 66), and the prevalence of child anxiety was 77.22% (n = 122). There was no statistically significant relation between parental anxiety, child anxiety, and child behavior during simple restorative treatment. Conclusion: Parental anxiety exists among the included sample. Low level of dental anxiety is prevalent among children aged 4 to 6. There was no correlation between parental anxiety and a child's dental anxiety, as well as no correlation between parental anxiety and child's behavior during dental care. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Child Anxiety; Parental anxiety; Child Behavior; Simple restorative treatment | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 40 PDF Download: 18 |
||
