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Dental fear in an u...
Dental fear in an urban Swedish child population: prevalence and concomitant factors.
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- Klingberg, Gunilla, 1960 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Odontologiska institutionen, Avdelningen för pedodonti,Institute of Odontology, Department of Pedodontics
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- Berggren, Ulf, 1948 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Odontologiska institutionen,Institute of Odontology
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- Norén, Jörgen G, 1947 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Odontologiska institutionen, Avdelningen för pedodonti,Institute of Odontology, Department of Pedodontics
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- 1994
- 1994
- English.
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In: Community dental health. - 0265-539X. ; 11:4, s. 208-14
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- In order to establish normative data on the dental subscale of children's fear survey schedule (CFSS-DS), measuring child dental fear, and to study the influence of general fears, parental fears and socio-economic correlates on children's dental fear levels, a questionnaire was sent to parents of a representative sample of 4,505 children aged 4-6, and 9-11-years-old in Göteborg, Sweden. The questionnaire contained the CFSS-DS, a short form of the CFSS measuring general fears, Corah's dental anxiety scale (DAS) (measuring parents' dental fear) and specific questions on parents' employment and the native language in the family. A total of 3,204 responses was received. The overall mean score on CFSS-DS was 23.1, and 6.7 per cent of the children were found to be fearful. Dental fear decreased with increasing age and was positively correlated to general fears. Three variables: age, general fears and maternal dental fear, were found to have a significant impact on the variance of CFSS-DS.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Odontologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Dentistry (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Age Factors
- Child
- Child Behavior
- Child
- Preschool
- DMF Index
- Dental Anxiety
- epidemiology
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Manifest Anxiety Scale
- Mother-Child Relations
- Prevalence
- Questionnaires
- Sex Factors
- Social Class
- Sweden
- epidemiology
- Urban Population
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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