Department of Dental Public Health, King Abdulaziz University, 21589, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Public Health and Community Service, Tufts University, Boston, 02111, USA.
Sci Rep. 2024 Aug 5;14(1):18134. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-69154-4.
To investigate the association between parenting style and child's dental caries. Parents presenting with their children to the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine for an initial exam or re-care appointment completed a demographic survey and the parenting styles and dimensions questionnaire. Recruitment of subjects started in May 2019 and ended in February of 2020. Child's decayed, missing, and filled teeth (dmft) index, diet score, sex, and age were recorded, as were parent's race, education level, and form of payment. Adjustment for confounders was done using multivariable negative binomial regression. The sample size was 210 parent/child dyads. In the multivariable analysis, parenting style and child's dmft were not significantly associated (p > 0.05). Parents with an education level less than high school (p = 0.02) and at the high school graduate level (p = 0.008) were significantly associated with children who had higher dmft, compared to parents with a college degree or higher. Children with excellent diet scores had significantly lower dmft than children with a diet score in the "needs improvement" category (p = 0.003). There was no significant evidence that parenting style is associated with child's dental caries. Parent's education level and child's diet score were significantly associated with child's dmft, less than high school (p = 0.02) and at the level of high school graduate (p = 0.008). Pediatric dental professionals should be aware of these risk indicators.
为了探究父母教养方式与儿童龋齿之间的关系。父母带着他们的孩子到塔夫茨大学牙医学院儿科牙科进行初次检查或重新护理预约，完成了一份人口统计调查和父母教养方式及维度问卷。研究对象的招募始于 2019 年 5 月，结束于 2020 年 2 月。记录了儿童的龋齿、缺失和补牙（dmft）指数、饮食评分、性别和年龄，以及父母的种族、教育水平和支付方式。采用多变量负二项回归法对混杂因素进行调整。样本量为 210 对父母/子女对。在多变量分析中，父母教养方式与儿童的 dmft 无显著相关性（p＞0.05）。与具有大学学历或更高学历的父母相比，教育程度低于高中（p=0.02）和高中毕业生（p=0.008）的父母与 dmft 较高的儿童显著相关。饮食评分优秀的儿童 dmft 明显低于饮食评分“需要改进”类别的儿童（p=0.003）。没有证据表明父母教养方式与儿童龋齿有显著相关性。父母的教育水平和儿童的饮食评分与儿童的 dmft 显著相关，低于高中（p=0.02）和高中毕业生（p=0.008）。儿科牙科专业人员应注意这些风险指标。
