Abstract

SANCHEZ AGUILERA, F; TOLEDANO, M  and  OSARIO, R. Sex and dental treatment influence on child's dental anxiety: Behaviour valuation. Av Odontoestomatol [online]. 2004, vol.20, n.4, pp.199-206. ISSN 2340-3152.

Often, the posture of a child before the dental treatment become difficult this treatment because de crease his cooperation and appear a negative behavior. The objectives of the study were: 1) to compare the dental anxiety that appears in a group of girls in relation to one of boys; 2) to establish the relationship between a child behavior and his anxiety; and, 3) to determine the anxiety before and after a total dental treatment in a children group. 81 children have been analyzed (8-12 years) that they had not gone before to a dental visito For the anxiety evaluation they were asked with the test STAIC (State/Anxiety and Trait/Anxiety) before the first visit and in the third (the last) visit; it was also used the Behavior Profile Rating Scale to appraise their behavior, (in the second visit of their treatment). There were no significant differences of anxiety between boys and girls before the treatment. The state/anxiety is strongly correlated with the behavior that a child presents during his dental treatment. The values of anxiety before the treatment are higher to the anxiety after the same one, what indicates a dental experience atraumatic it is the main way to descend the anxiety in the child.

Keywords : Pediatrics; child's dental anxiety; behaviour profile; sex; state/anxiety; trait/anxiety.

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