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KMID : 0362720130510070405
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Journal of the Korean Dental Association
2013 Volume.51 No. 7 p.405 ~ p.413
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Dental fear and anxiety of middle school students in D middle school in Gyeonggi-Do, 2012
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Choi Ja-Eun
Yang Hyun-Ju
An So-Youn
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Abstract
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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 adulthoods 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 ?ausing 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.
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KEYWORD
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Middle school students, adolescent, fear, anxiety, Dental fear survey
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