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- Title
Effectiveness of an educational pamphlet for mothers on cooperation of 3-7 years old children in the first dental visit.
- Authors
Motlagh, Mehdi Ghandehari; Pourhashemi, Seyyed Jalal; Ghadimi, Sara; Baghae, Farideh
- Abstract
Background and Aims: Dental environment is a stressful place for children. In many cases, parents transmit their anxiety to their children in the first dental visit. Mothers as the closest person to the children may have important influence on their children's behavior in dentistry. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational pamphlet for mothers on children's behavior in the first dental visit. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted on 238 mothers who have 3-7 years old child undergoing dental treatment for the first time. The participants were divided into interventional and control group randomly. Behavior of children was assessed by questionnaire according to 4 point scale of Frankle. The questionnaire contained 5 parts: separation of child from the mother, entering the dental room, opening the mouth, communicating with dentist, getting the prize. Data were analyzed using Chi-square test. Results: The educational pamphlet was effective on the separation of child from the mother, the cooperation of children in interventional group was better than the control group (P=0.006). In interventional group 96.2% of children had good and very good behavior and in the control group 90.8% of children had good and very good behavior but the difference was not significant (P=0.11). Conclusion: Although the educational pamphlet was effective on the separation of child from mother, there was not any significant difference in behavior of 3-7 year-old children between interventional and control group.
- Subjects
EDUCATION of mothers; CHI-squared test; CHILDREN'S dental care; COOPERATIVENESS; PAMPHLETS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; EDUCATIONAL outcomes; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Dental Medicine, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 4, p309
- ISSN
1024-641X
- Publication type
Article