ArticleInternational journal of paediatric dentistry2019
Transmission of dental fear from parent to adolescent in an Appalachian sample in the USA.
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- Genome-wide Scan of Dental Fear and Anxiety Nominates Novel Genes.Journal of dental research · 2022Pooled it
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- Perceived barriers, applied strategies, and typology of dentists treating patients with dental anxiety: a qualitative study.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- A machine learning approach to investigate the role of fear of pain, personal experience, and vicarious learning in dental anxiety.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- A Cross-Sectional Study on the Impact of Dental Fear and Anxiety on the Quality of Life of Romanian Dental Students.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Associations between Dental Anxiety Levels, Self-Reported Oral Health, Previous Unpleasant Dental Experiences, and Behavioural Reactions in Dental Settings: An Adult E-Survey.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the relationship between dental anxiety and oral health status of mothers and their children.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Concordance of Fathers and Mothers in the Assessment of Their 5-Year-Old Child's Dental Fear.Dentistry journal · 2024Article
- Parental preferences for the procedural sedation of children in dentistry: a discrete choice experiment.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Racism in oral healthcare settings: Implications for dental care-related fear/anxiety and utilization among Black/African American women in Appalachia.Journal of public health dentistry · 2022Article
- Oral sedation in dentistry: evaluation of professional practice of oral hydroxyzine in the University Hospital of Rennes, France.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2021Article
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- A Framework for Understanding the Role of Psychological Processes in Disease Development, Maintenance, and Treatment: The 3P-Disease Model.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Evaluation of Parental Dental Fear and Anxiety (DFA) on Adolescent Dental Treatment: A Narrative review.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community DentistryReview
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Abstract
backgroundDental fear/anxiety is associated with numerous negative outcomes. State dental fear is known to be transmitted from parents to their children in the dental setting, but it is not known how trait fear/anxiety might be shared between parents and offspring long term, and especially for adolescents.
aimThis study aimed to: (a) compare dental fear levels of adolescents and their parents; (b) predict adolescent dental fear based on demographic variables, fear of pain, and parental dental fear; and, (c) determine relative contributions of mothers' and fathers' dental fear to adolescent fear.
designIn this cross-sectional study, the Dental Fear Survey and Fear of Pain Questionnaire-9 were administered to 350 adolescents (age range 11-17) and 515 of their parents, with t test and ANOVA used to calculate between-group differences; multiple linear regression was used to predict adolescent fear from parent fear.
resultsAdolescents' dental fear was predicted by their own fear of pain and their parents' dental fear, but not their parents' fear of pain nor their own age or gender. When considered together, fathers' but not mothers' dental fear predicted adolescents' dental fear.
conclusionsParents' fears/anxieties about dentistry are associated with adolescents' dental fear in a manner suggestive of intergenerational transmission.
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