Evaluation of the relationship between behavior of children in pediatric dental clinic and their mothers' personality

Document Type : original article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

3 Pedodontist

Abstract

Introduction:
Dentists will be able to overcome the child's behavior problem in dental clinic by anticipation of his behavior and application of appropriate management strategies to treat an individual child's patients.
 The aim of this study was to assess the possibility of anticipation of children's behavior by their mothers' personality.
Materials and Methods:
In this cross-sectional and descriptive analytic study, 104 healthy children aged 3-6 years without a previous  history of dental visit and their mothers were selected.َ At the beginning of the study, mothers' personalities were determined using a questionnaire and a 15 minute interview by a psychiatrist and were categorized in four groups as normal, depressive, with anxiety, and  obssesional personality. Then the children's behavior was classified according to Frankl behavioral rating scale during three different dental visits of oral examination, fluoride therapy and restorative dental treatment, without considering  their mothers personality.
Finally, the relationship between behavioral scores of children and their mothers' personality traits were  statistically analysed using ANOVA test.
Results:
This study revealed a significant positive association between the mean behavioral score of children and their mothers' personality traits only at the first visit and the difference between the mean behavioral score of children with obssesive mothers and those with normal personality traits was significant(P= 0.02)
Conclusion:
Mothers' personality affected the children's behavior only during the first dental visit.

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Journal of Mashhad Dental School
Volume 28, Issue 1,2
Spring & Summer 2004
April 2004
Pages 111-118

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  • Receive Date: 21 September 2013
  • Accept Date: 21 September 2013

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