Association of Child Temperament with Early Childhood Caries

Jabin, Zohra; Chaudhary, Seema

doi:10.7860/jcdr/2014/9770.5262

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“…Internalizing problems refer to emotional symptoms, including the excessive control of oneself, and may limit the social experiences of children, which tend to create obstacles for the psychological adjustment . Externalizing problems are those concerning to impulsivity and conduct problems and refer to behaviour problems manifested in children's outward behaviour and reflect children's negatively acting on the external environment . Such characteristics may interfere with daily routines, such as tooth brushing, directly affecting the oral health .…”

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“…According to previous authors, these characteristics can indicate that children's attitudes towards the preventive and dietary measures are difficult to modify which renders them more susceptible to developing carious lesions. Besides that, children with these characteristics are more susceptible to negatively react to unfamiliar situations, such as a new person or environment …”

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“…26 Externalizing problems are those concerning to impulsivity and conduct problems and refer to behaviour problems manifested in children's outward behaviour and reflect children's negatively acting on the external environment. 27 Such characteristics may interfere with daily routines, such as tooth brushing, directly affecting the oral health. 11 Behavioural problems have also being associated with dental caries, 10,11,27 and children who presented with early childhood caries were found to be less sociable, less energetic, highly distractible, and less rhythmic.…”

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“…Besides that, children with these characteristics are more susceptible to negatively react to unfamiliar situations, such as a new person or environment. 27 It has been suggested that psychological attributes can help predict child behaviour in dental settings; however, no study has shown the influence of internalizing and externalizing problems on behaviour presented during dental visits. Aminabadi and coworkers 16 demonstrated that children who are more temperamental, those who display traits of anger, irritability, fear, reaction, reactivity, and shyness, behave more negatively during dental treatment.…”

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Childhood social, emotional, and behavioural problems and their association with behaviour in the dental setting

Cademartori

Corrêa

Silva

et al. 2018

Int J Paed Dentistry

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Background Mental disorders are among the main causes of global disability in children, with negative impacts on their quality of life. It is possible that mental disorders could be associated with how children react in the dental setting. Aim To test the association between children's psychological attributes and behaviour presented during dental care. Design A questionnaire was given to mothers of children attending a paediatric dental clinic. Psychological attributes were evaluated using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. For analysis, the Internalizing and Externalizing problems and the Prosocial behaviour subscales were considered. Children's behaviour was assessed using the Frankl Scale. For analysis, Poisson regression models were employed. A significant level of P ≤ 0.05 was adopted. Results Overall, 128 children aged between four and 12 years were included. Total difficulties (PR 5.36; 95%CI 2.2‐12.9), Internalizing problems (PR 4.04; 95%CI 1.6‐10.0), and externalizing problems (PR 3.36; 1.5‐7.7) were associated with uncooperative behaviour. In relation to the strength domain, the Prosocial behaviour subscale (PR 1.21; 95%CI 0.6‐2.6) was not associated with child behaviour. Conclusions This study provides evidence that children aged between four and 12 years with internalizing and externalizing problems tend to have a higher prevalence of negative behaviour during dental treatment.

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Childhood social, emotional, and behavioural problems and their association with behaviour in the dental setting

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Int J Paed Dentistry

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“…According with one study, the temperament of children with ECC was less sociable, energetic, rhytimic and highly distracted as compared to children without ECC [30]. Another study showed that [25], shyness, a subscale of Emotionality, Sociability, Activity (EAS) Temperament Survey for Children, and duration of feeding habit together were associated with ECC.…”

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Behavior Factors and Temperament in Children with and without Early Childhood Caries: A Comparative Study

2017

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The aims of this study were to evaluate and to compare the behavioral risk factors (diet and oral hygiene habits) and temperament of children with and without early childhood caries assisted by public health service. A cross-sectional study was carried out with a convenience sample composed of 120 children of both gender aged two to five years and their respective mothers, divided into two groups. Two researches applied a questionnaire in order to obtain data about mother, family and child. Child temperament was classified according mother's perception, six choices of temperament were given to mothers and was asked to choose the most applicable to child: (1) calm; (2) fussy; (3) crying; (4) demanding; (5) stubborn; (6) other.Clinical examinations were carried out for the diagnosis of dental caries by the same trained and calibrated examiner for all subjects; the criteria of the World Health Organization were used for the diagnosis of dental caries. The presence of visible dental biofilm was evaluated on the vestibular surface of four upper incisors, without disclosing. The logistic regression (p<0.05) between children without caries and with early childhood caries showed that factors as the child age (OR = 1.480), the frequency of sugar intake between meals (OR = 2.343), use of fluoridated paste (OR = 2.763), lack of brushing after dinner (OR = 0.539) and unsatisfactory oral hygiene (OR = 3.449) were associated to early childhood caries. There was no difference regarding the temperament of children with and without caries. Behavioral risk factors (dietary habits and oral hygiene) were associated with the presence of early childhood caries.

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Association of temperament with oral health behaviour and caries status in Thai preschool children

Gultangvattana,

Chutabhakdikul,

Leelataweewud

et al. 2023

Int J Paed Dentistry

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BackgroundTemperament associated with oral health behaviour and early childhood caries (ECC) in preschoolers remains inconclusive.AimThis cross‐sectional study investigated the association of temperament with oral health behaviour and ECC status.DesignA total of 421 Thai preschoolers were recruited from elementary schools in Chonburi Province, Thailand. Their caregivers assessed three temperament dimensions (surgency, negative affectivity and effortful control) using the Thai version of the Children's Behaviour Questionnaire Very Short Form and reported oral health behaviours (brushing cooperation and cariogenic snack frequency). Three calibrated dentists assessed ECC status using the modified WHO dmft/dmfs (decayed, missing and filled teeth/surface) index that included noncavitated and cavitated carious lesions.ResultsMultiple regression analysis, after adjusting for child's and caregiver's characteristics, revealed that children with high negative affectivity or low effortful control were more likely to have uncooperative brushing behaviour. The temperament scores of children who consumed cariogenic snacks daily and those who did not were comparable. Children with low surgency, high negative affectivity or low effortful control were more likely to have high dmfs scores.ConclusionNegative affectivity and effortful control were associated with brushing behaviour. Temperament was not associated with the frequency of cariogenic snack consumption. All temperamental dimensions, however, were associated with ECC.

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Association of Child Temperament with Early Childhood Caries

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Childhood social, emotional, and behavioural problems and their association with behaviour in the dental setting

Childhood social, emotional, and behavioural problems and their association with behaviour in the dental setting

Behavior Factors and Temperament in Children with and without Early Childhood Caries: A Comparative Study

Association of temperament with oral health behaviour and caries status in Thai preschool children

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