Journal article
Influence of Temperament As a Risk Indicator for Early Childhood Caries
Pediatric dentistry, Vol.42(6), pp.470-475
11/15/2020
PMCID: PMC7773143
PMID: 33369559
Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the association between temperament and caries. Methods: A total of 408 primary caregiver-child pairs were followed for 36 months; they completed the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire Very Short-Form (ECBQ-VSF) at age four years.
Demographic, behavioral, and clinical data were obtained at ages one, two-and-a-half, and four years, with caries experience assessed each time using the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS). The ECBQ-VSF (36 items) was used to measure three child temperament domains:
(1) surgency; (2) negative affect; and (3) effortful control. The associations between cavitated carious lesion experience by age four years (decayed, missing, and filled primary surfaces [dmfs] score greater than zero; d equals ICDAS score greater than or equal to three) and the three ECBQ-VSF
temperament domains were analyzed using generalized estimating equation models. Results: Temperament domains predicted the number of carious surfaces (dmfs). After adjusting for covariates, every one-point increase in surgency and one-point increase in negative affect were associated
with 77 percent and 31 percent increases in dmfs, respectively (P<0.05), and every one-point increase in effortful control was associated with a 39 percent decrease in dmfs (P<0.05). Conclusions: By age four years, children with higher levels of surgency and negative affect
have a higher caries experience, whereas children with greater effortful control have a lower caries experience.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Influence of Temperament As a Risk Indicator for Early Childhood Caries
- Creators
- Rocio QuinonezRobert Santos - University of ManitobaGeorge Eckert - Indiana UniversityMartha Ann Keels - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSteven Levy - University of IowaBarcey Levy - University of IowaRichard Jackson - Indiana UniversityMargherita Fontana - University of Michigan
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Pediatric dentistry, Vol.42(6), pp.470-475
- PMID
- 33369559
- PMCID
- PMC7773143
- NLM abbreviation
- Pediatr Dent
- ISSN
- 0164-1263
- eISSN
- 1942-5473
- Publisher
- American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/15/2020
- Academic Unit
- Preventive and Community Dentistry; Epidemiology; Family and Community Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984297337302771
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