Jervøe-Storm Pia-Merete, Peters Lisa Patricia, Bekes Katrin, Fricke Miriam, Jepsen Søren
Department of Periodontology, Operative and Preventive Dentistry, University of Bonn, Welschnonnenstrasse 17, 53111 Bonn, Germany.
Independent Researcher, Lortzingstraße 38, 53332 Bornheim, Germany.
J Clin Med. 2023 Oct 23;12(20):6691. doi: 10.3390/jcm12206691.
The patients' fear of the dentist plays an important role in the everyday life of a dentist. The anxiety level of children in relation to dental treatment/visits and to their parents' dental fear was evaluated in three different centers. Assessments of a modified CFSS-DS (mCFSS-DS) were performed by questionnaire with 60 children and their parents. Children's dmft/DMFT scores, age and gender were evaluated in relation to the parents' perception of their child's anxiety levels. For statistical evaluation, Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon tests as well as Spearman's correlation coefficient (Spearman) were used. The significance level was set at 0.05. There were no significant differences regarding children's mCFSS-DS between the three centers ( = 0.398, Kruskal-Wallis). The parents' mCFSS-DS scores correlated significantly with their children's mCFSS-DS scores ( = 0.004, Spearman). However, the mean mCFSS-DS score of the children was significantly higher than the mean score of parents' perception of their child's anxiety ( = 0.000, Wilcoxon). The age of the child had an influence on the mCFSS-DS score ( = 0.02, Kruskal-Wallis) but neither the children's gender ( = 0.170, Kruskal-Wallis), nor the dmft/DMFT showed an impact ( < 0.725, Spearman). Although a positive correlation was found between the results of the children's and parents' questionnaire, many parents underestimated the anxiety level of their children.
患者对牙医的恐惧在牙医的日常工作中起着重要作用。在三个不同的中心评估了儿童对牙科治疗/就诊以及对其父母牙科恐惧的焦虑程度。通过对60名儿童及其父母进行问卷调查来评估改良的儿童恐惧调查量表-牙科分量表（mCFSS-DS）。根据父母对孩子焦虑程度的认知，评估了儿童的乳牙龋失补牙面/恒牙龋失补牙面（dmft/DMFT）得分、年龄和性别。为进行统计评估，使用了Kruskal-Wallis检验、Wilcoxon检验以及Spearman相关系数（Spearman）。显著性水平设定为0.05。三个中心之间儿童的mCFSS-DS没有显著差异（Kruskal-Wallis检验，P = 0.398）。父母的mCFSS-DS得分与孩子的mCFSS-DS得分显著相关（Spearman检验，P = 0.004）。然而，儿童的mCFSS-DS平均得分显著高于父母对孩子焦虑程度认知的平均得分（Wilcoxon检验，P = 0.000）。孩子的年龄对mCFSS-DS得分有影响（Kruskal-Wallis检验，P = 0.02），但孩子的性别（Kruskal-Wallis检验，P = 0.170）和dmft/DMFT均未显示出影响（Spearman检验，P < 0.725）。尽管在儿童和父母的问卷调查结果之间发现了正相关，但许多父母低估了孩子的焦虑程度。
