Department of Oral Public Health, Dental Research Centre, Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Department of Oral Public Health, Dental Material Research Centre, Dental Reseach Institute, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Community Dent Health. 2024 May 31;41(2):117-121. doi: 10.1922/CDH_00250Tahani05.
While the child's first dental visit can shape his/her attitude towards further treatments, little consideration has been given to exploring this experience from the child's perspective. Therefore, the aim of the study was to delineate the experiences of the first dental visit of children based on self-written stories in their own words.
Qualitative study conducted as part of the oral health promoting school program in Isfahan city, Iran. Data collection was based on the responses to a question included in the programme's printed educational content. Schoolchildren were asked to explain about their experiences of their first dental visit in a story. Two researchers read the stories separately and identified concepts and themes. In a discussion panel gained consensus about the main themes. Then the researchers integrated and grouped together similar themes to new categories. Categories originating in the data provided insights into and explanations of factors that might influence the schoolchildren's experience in the dental office. Sampling continued until saturation, when no new codes appeared in the data. The childrens' stories were imported in the MAXQD software and analyzed to retrieve the main categories and themes.
Factors that influenced experiences appeared to be idiosyncratic, but could be classified into three categories: the person accompanying the child, child and dentist-related factors. Two sub-categories of the person accompanying the child were the role of person in their treatment and the types of persons accompanying them. Dentist-related factors included three more sub-themes of applied behavioral management techniques, their role in oral health education, and organization of the office environment. The three sub-themes of children's related factors were experiencing fear, remembering the details of their experience, and type of care received.
Although the method was limited to the qualitative written stories of children and there was no opportunity to explore more and consider the detailed opinions by face-to-face interviews, some noticeable elements were mentioned by children. The person accompanying the child, child and dentist-related factors were three main categories obtained from the data.
虽然儿童的首次看牙经历可能会影响他们对进一步治疗的态度，但很少有人从儿童的角度来探索这种经历。因此，本研究的目的是根据儿童用自己的语言写的故事来描述他们首次看牙的经历。
这是伊朗伊斯法罕市口腔健康促进学校项目的一部分，属于定性研究。数据收集基于方案中印刷教育内容包含的一个问题的回应。要求学童用一个故事来解释他们首次看牙的经历。两位研究人员分别阅读故事，识别概念和主题。在讨论小组中，就主要主题达成共识。然后，研究人员将相似的主题整合到新类别中。源于数据的类别提供了对可能影响儿童在牙科诊所体验的因素的深入了解和解释。采样一直持续到数据中没有新的代码出现，即达到饱和状态。儿童的故事被导入 MAXQD 软件进行分析，以检索主要类别和主题。
影响经历的因素似乎是特殊的，但可以分为三类：陪同孩子的人、儿童和牙医相关因素。陪同孩子的人的两个子类别是他们在治疗中的角色和陪同他们的人的类型。牙医相关因素包括应用行为管理技术、他们在口腔健康教育中的角色以及办公室环境组织的三个更子主题。儿童相关因素的三个子主题是体验恐惧、记住经历的细节和接受的护理类型。
尽管该方法仅限于儿童的定性书面故事，没有机会通过面对面访谈来探索更多内容并考虑详细意见，但儿童提到了一些值得注意的元素。陪同孩子的人、儿童和牙医相关因素是从数据中获得的三个主要类别。
