ArticleBMC oral health2019
The pain colour of children with toothache in Turkish population.
Article in BMC oral health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04682080 (Comparative Evaluation of Pain Perception With a Comfort-in Jet Injection and Convantional Dental Injection in Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers.
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Comparative Evaluation of Pain Perception With a Comfort-in Jet Injection and Convantional Dental Injection in Children: a Randomized, Split-mouth, Clinical Trial
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
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Abstract
backgroundToothache is a common consequence of untreated caries, predisposed by poor oral hygiene and high caries risk. Most children expressed their pain through their parents or carers. The aim of this study was to determine the colour of pain presence and absence.
methodsPatients aged between 4 and 14 and referred to a dentist for the first time due to toothache had a short-term pain of 1 month caused by deep cavities. The children chose paintings from the box of 24 standard colours (Crayola, Spain) and the circles were painted. Pain was rated by children on the Visual Analoge Scale. Normality and variance were tested using the one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Associations were performed by using the Pearson correlation coefficient. Analyses were completed by using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) version 20.0 program.
resultsA total of 147 patients including 78 girls (53.1%) and 69 boys (46.9%) were included in the study. The principal component analysis showed that red has the highest factor loading in children with pain, whereas yellow was the other highest one in children without pain.
conclusionThe presence of pain was mainly associated with red, and the absence of pain was associated with yellow in Turkish population. Description of pain with colour can be useful tool to recognize the children and to improve dentist-patient or dentist-parents communication.
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