Developmental problems concerning children's oral functions,based on a questionnaire administered to dentists and guardians |
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| Affiliation: | 1. The Committee of Emphasis Study, Japanese Association for Dental Science, Tokyo, Japan;2. Division of Rehabilitation for Speech and Swallowing Disorders, The Nippon Dental University, Tama Oral Rehabilitation Clinic, Tokyo, Japan;3. Division of Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Oral Interdisciplinary Medicine, Graduate School of Dentistry, Kanagawa Dental University, Kanagawa, Japan;4. Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan;5. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, School of Dentistry, Matsumoto Dental University, Nagano, Japan;6. Department of Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Fuchu Medical Center for the Disabled, Tokyo, Japan;7. Nakajima Dental Clinic, Kanagawa, Japan;8. Japan Dental Association, Tokyo, Japan;9. Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan;10. Department of Special Needs and Geriatric Dentistry, Kyushu Dental University, Fukuoka, Japan;11. Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Kagoshima University Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan;12. Japanese Association for Dental Science, Tokyo, Japan;1. Faculty of Dentistry, Thamar University, Dhamar, Yemen;2. Faculty of Dentistry, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt;1. Department of Pediatric & Preventive Dentistry, JSS Dental College & Hospital, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Mysuru, India;2. Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, JSS Dental College & Hospital, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Mysuru, India;1. Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine, 2-1-3 Tsurumi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-8501, Japan;2. Department of Oral Anatomy, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine, 2-1-3 Tsurumi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-8501, Japan;1. University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago;2. University of Dundee, UK |
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ObjectivesThis study aimed to clarify the importance of dental support for eating problems of infants, young children and disabled children, based on a questionnaire survey administered to dentists and guardians.Materials and methodsThe respondents consisted of 1001 dentists, pediatric dentistry administrators randomly selected by each prefectural or municipal dental association, and 1031 guardians of preschoolers who attended kindergartens or children's day-care centers. Answers were received from 712 dentists and 844 guardians. We compared answers to question No. 16 for dentists and questions No. 23 & 26 for guardians. Furthermore, we compared free comments to question No. 16 for dentists and answers to No. 27 for guardians. Question No. 27 for dentists and question No. 21 for guardians similarly asked about children's eating problems, and we thus next compared the tendencies noted in answers to these questions. In addition, a componential analysis was conducted for free text answers to question No. 31 for dentists and question No. 34 for guardians to qualitatively examine “free comments to children's eating problems”. Free comments were statistically analyzed using a text-mining approach in IBM SPSS Text Analytics for Surveys.ResultsThe results revealed that guardians had more concerns about the following issues (relative to dentists): “vegetables” (23-fold) and “picky eating/fad eating/biased eating” (eight-fold). Issues of more concern to dentists (relative to guardians) were “mastication/chewing” (two-fold) and “dental caries/decay” (1.3-fold).ConclusionsThis study suggested that guardian's anxieties regarding children's eating problems have variable background factors. |
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| Keywords: | Children's oral function Eating problems Dentists Guardians |
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