Meghpara Mili, Marwah Nikhil, Sharma Yashi, Paliwal Archana, Godhani Shubham
Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Mahatma Gandhi Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur, India.
Department of Community Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, India.
J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent. 2022 Jul-Sep;40(3):260-264. doi: 10.4103/jisppd.jisppd_213_22.
COVID-19 presented a unique scenario among children, specifically all over the world. The children had decrease outdoors activities and learning times, increased use of electronic gadgets and changes in sleep patterns. These altered behavior patterns of children directly influenced their behavior in the dental operatory. This coupled with the stringent protocols of COVID-19, made the behavior management of children a tedious task. However, as they say that necessity is the mother of all inventions, the pediatric dentist took this time to evaluate newer methods of behavior management and modified old strategies with newer modifications.
The main aim of this study was to observe the modifications in behavior management strategies among pediatric dentists in the post-COVID-19 era while managing the child in dental operatory.
Four hundred pediatric dentists were mailed a questionnaire consisting of 24 open and closed-ended questions consisting of personal data, professional information, and questions regarding various behavior management techniques used by them in pre- and post-COVID-19 era. Data obtained were subjected to statistical analysis using SPSS version 26.0, IBM, and a comparison of frequencies of categories of variables with groups was made using Chi-Square test and McNemar test.
The results showed that there were statistically highly significant changes in behavior management strategies pre- and post-COVID-19 scenario with P < 0.01.
Conventional techniques like Tell-Show-Do were popular in both pre- and post-COVID-19 times with minor modifications in approach, but conscious sedation and distraction techniques were evaluated to have gained more popularity in the post-COVID-19 times along with exploration of new novel techniques.
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）在全球儿童中呈现出一种独特的情况。孩子们户外活动和学习时间减少，电子设备使用增加，睡眠模式改变。这些儿童行为模式的改变直接影响了他们在牙科诊疗室的行为。再加上COVID-19的严格防控措施，儿童行为管理成为一项繁琐的任务。然而，正如人们所说，需要是发明之母，儿科牙医利用这段时间评估行为管理的新方法，并对旧策略进行更新改进。
本研究的主要目的是观察COVID-19后时代儿科牙医在牙科诊疗室管理儿童时行为管理策略的变化。
向400名儿科牙医邮寄了一份问卷，其中包括24个开放式和封闭式问题，涵盖个人数据、专业信息以及他们在COVID-19前后使用的各种行为管理技术的问题。使用IBM的SPSS 26.0版本对获得的数据进行统计分析，并使用卡方检验和 McNemar检验对变量类别频率与组间进行比较。
结果显示，COVID-19前后行为管理策略存在统计学上的高度显著变化，P < 0.01。
“告知-展示-做”等传统技术在COVID-19前后都很流行，只是方法略有修改，但清醒镇静和分散注意力技术在COVID-19后时代更受欢迎，同时还探索了新的技术。
