Department of Dental Practice & Rural Health, School of Dentistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Department of Psychology, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Int J Paediatr Dent. 2019 Nov;29(6):720-727. doi: 10.1111/ipd.12564. Epub 2019 Sep 12.
Dental fear/anxiety is associated with numerous negative outcomes. State dental fear is known to be transmitted from parents to their children in the dental setting, but it is not known how trait fear/anxiety might be shared between parents and offspring long term, and especially for adolescents.
This study aimed to: (a) compare dental fear levels of adolescents and their parents; (b) predict adolescent dental fear based on demographic variables, fear of pain, and parental dental fear; and, (c) determine relative contributions of mothers' and fathers' dental fear to adolescent fear.
In this cross-sectional study, the Dental Fear Survey and Fear of Pain Questionnaire-9 were administered to 350 adolescents (age range 11-17) and 515 of their parents, with t test and ANOVA used to calculate between-group differences; multiple linear regression was used to predict adolescent fear from parent fear.
Adolescents' dental fear was predicted by their own fear of pain and their parents' dental fear, but not their parents' fear of pain nor their own age or gender. When considered together, fathers' but not mothers' dental fear predicted adolescents' dental fear.
Parents' fears/anxieties about dentistry are associated with adolescents' dental fear in a manner suggestive of intergenerational transmission.
牙齿恐惧/焦虑与许多负面结果有关。在牙科环境中，已知父母的口腔恐惧会传递给子女，但尚不清楚特质恐惧/焦虑如何在父母和子女之间长期共享，特别是对于青少年。
本研究旨在：(a)比较青少年及其父母的牙齿恐惧程度；(b)根据人口统计学变量、对疼痛的恐惧以及父母的牙齿恐惧来预测青少年的牙齿恐惧；以及，(c)确定母亲和父亲的牙齿恐惧对青少年恐惧的相对贡献。
在这项横断面研究中，对 350 名年龄在 11-17 岁之间的青少年及其 515 名家长进行了牙科恐惧调查和疼痛恐惧问卷-9 的测试，使用 t 检验和 ANOVA 来计算组间差异；使用多元线性回归来预测父母恐惧对青少年恐惧的影响。
青少年的牙齿恐惧由他们自己对疼痛的恐惧以及他们父母的牙齿恐惧来预测，但父母对疼痛的恐惧、他们自己的年龄或性别都不能预测。当一起考虑时，父亲的而不是母亲的牙齿恐惧可以预测青少年的牙齿恐惧。
父母对牙科的恐惧/焦虑与青少年的牙齿恐惧有关，提示存在代际传递。
