NCT04122508

Are Dental Neglect and the Siblings Risk Factors in Children

Are Dental Neglect and the Presence of Siblings Risk Factors for Oral Health in Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Training and Research Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Neglect insidiously affects a child's overall health in all aspects. The aim of this study was to determine whether the presence of siblings caused dental neglect, and whether there was a relationship between dental neglect and anxiety.

Detailed description

Dental neglect is an intentional failure of parents or caregivers to take precautions and fulfil necessary dental treatment, and has a close relationship with dental caries and anxiety. Oral health status of the children was evaluated using the DMFT/dmft, PUFA/pufa, and OHI-S indices. In addition, the parents completed the Dental Neglect Scale (DNS) and a questionnaire, and the Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale (MCDASf) was administered to the children to assess their dental anxiety.

Conditions

• Behavior, Child
• Caries,Dental
• Neglect, Child
• Anxiety

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-07-31
• Completion: 2019-09-30
• First posted: 2019-10-10
• Last updated: 2019-10-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)