2012년도 경기도 D 중학교 학생들의 치과 진료에 대한 공포 및 불안에 관한 연구 |
최자은1, 양현주2, 안소연3 |
1원광대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실 및 원광대학교치의학연구소 2원광대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실 및 원광대학교치의학연구소 3원광대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실 및 원광대학교치의학연구소 |
Dental fear and anxiety of middle school students in D middle school in Gyeonggi-Do, 2012 |
Ja-Eun Choi1, Hyun-Ju Yang2, So-Youn An3 |
1Department of pediatric dentistry Wonkwang university, Wonkwang dental research institute 2Department of pediatric dentistry Wonkwang university, Wonkwang dental research institute 3Department of pediatric dentistry Wonkwang university, Wonkwang dental research institute |
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Abstract |
Pediatric and adolescent dental anxiety and fear have been researched in the connection with behavior modification for a long time and this dental anxiety can persist until the adult hoods resulting in extreme fear of and avoidance of dental treatments and causes oral health deterioration. However, the domestic researches regarding adolescent dental anxiety and fear are insufficient. For this reason, this study aims to examine the level of fear and the influential factors affecting their dental fear and to utilize the result as the basic materials in the dental management. The subjects were the students from a middle school located in Gyeonggi-Do. The school was selected by convenient sampling and self-answered questionnaire was filled in by the students. The distribution of responses in each category of fear was examined by frequency analysis. The analysis was conducted using cross tabulation in order to examine the difference between male students and female students and using independent sample t-test in order to compare the fear score of each category. The study results showed the fear score of female students for the category 'causing irritation during the dental treatments' was significantly higher in statistics(p<0.05). Therefore, these results should be reflected to the dental care environments in order for the adolescent to reduce the dental anxiety and fear. |
Key Words:
Middle school students;adolescent;fear;anxiety;Dental fear survey; |