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Abstract
Summary
How children are treated is a major challenge for every pediatric dentist. There are various techniques of behavior and pharmacological treatment used in pediatric dentistry. Parental approval of various BGTs can vary among cultures and socioeconomic norms within the same society. Furthermore, parental acceptance of BGTs in Egypt has not been evaluated in any prior studies. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to establish the acceptance of different BGTs by a group of Egyptian parents.
This cross-sectional study involved a total of 140 participants. Seventy parents who took their children to private dental clinics, and the other 70 parents who took their children to governmental dental clinics. For each group, the age of children has been divided into two subgroups: 35 parents with a children below 6 years old and 35 parents with a children aged between 6 and 12. The study excluded parents with a child with special healthcare needs. Participation in the study has been voluntary.
Following the viewing of a videotape containing nine short videos, information on demographic data and assessment of parental attitudes towards various BGTs that might be implemented in their children’s oral health care clinic has been collected using a questionnaire drawn up by direct face-to-face interviews.
The video was accompanied by an introduction to the concept and an explanation and demonstration of the following BGTs: Tell-Show-Do, Tell-Play-Do, Modelling, Distraction Virtual Reality (3D distraction), Voice Control, Hand Over Mouth technique, Parent Separation, protective restraint, and General Anesthesia.
The questionnaire was divided into three parts: the first one consisted of two sections: the first section measured sociodemographic information about the guardian and the second section assessed demographic information about the child. The second one measured the parent’s dental anxiety and past dental experience by the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS). The MDAS is a set of five questions, with responses on the Likert scale ranging from 1 ”not anxious” to 5 ” extremely anxious ”. In the third questionnaire, parents were asked to rate each BGT using a 3-point Likert scale by choosing “acceptable, Neutral, unacceptable” with a 100-millimeter horizontal Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) response line below each technique to assess acceptability, the score at the right end represents “completely acceptable” and the left end represents “completely unacceptable. Finally, to determine which technique is the most acceptable and the least acceptable, the parents were asked to list the techniques and order them from 1 to 9.
The data analysis revealed significant demographic differences between parents attending private and public dental clinics in both age groups, with gender differences, higher number of mothers accompanying children in governmental clinics, and a higher number of siblings in the governmental clinics. Parents attending private dental clinics had higher educational levels and parental employment status