Barasuol Jéssica Copetti, da Silva Assunção Luciana Reichert, Fraiz Fabian Calixto, Menezes José Vitor Nogara Borges
PhD student, Department of Dentistry, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, in Brazil;, Email:
Adjunct professor, Department of Stomatology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, in Brazil.
J Dent Child (Chic). 2017 Sep 15;84(3):125-131.
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the association between parents' dental anxiety (DA) and independent variables.
One hundred sixty-eight dyads of parents and six- to 12-year-old children who were undergoing treatment at a university pediatric dentistry clinic were recruited. Two examiners evaluated parents' DA and oral health literacy (OHL) using the Brazilian version of Corah's dental anxiety scale and the Brazilian Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry (BREALD-30), respectively. Children's DA was reported by parents through the dental anxiety question (DAQ). Demographic data was also collected. A single examiner used the decayed, missing, and filled permanent teeth and primary teeth (DMFT/dmft) indices to assess the children's oral health status. The data analysis involved univariate and multivariate Poisson regression.
In the multivariate regression, higher levels of parents' DA were associated with a household income equal to or less than the Brazilian monthly minimum wage (prevalence ratio [PR]=4.9; 95 percent confidence interval [CI]=2.1 to 11.7) and a lower degree of OHL (PR=1.68; 95 percent CI=1.01 to 2.8). Associations between parents' DA and children's DA and DMFT/dmft index were not found.
Parents' dental anxiety was related to a low household income and low oral health literacy.
本横断面研究旨在评估父母的牙科焦虑（DA）与自变量之间的关联。
招募了168对父母及其6至12岁正在大学儿科牙科诊所接受治疗的孩子。两名检查者分别使用巴西版的科拉牙科焦虑量表和巴西成人牙科快速识字评估量表（BREALD - 30）评估父母的牙科焦虑和口腔健康素养（OHL）。父母通过牙科焦虑问题（DAQ）报告孩子的牙科焦虑情况。还收集了人口统计学数据。一名检查者使用恒牙和乳牙的龋失补牙指数（DMFT/dmft）评估孩子的口腔健康状况。数据分析采用单变量和多变量泊松回归。
在多变量回归中，父母较高水平的牙科焦虑与等于或低于巴西月最低工资的家庭收入相关（患病率比[PR]=4.9；95%置信区间[CI]=2.1至11.7）以及较低程度的口腔健康素养（PR=1.68；95%置信区间=1.01至2.8）。未发现父母的牙科焦虑与孩子的牙科焦虑及DMFT/dmft指数之间存在关联。
父母的牙科焦虑与低家庭收入和低口腔健康素养有关。
