The impact of cyberbullying on schoolchildren’s dental anxiety in Brazil: A cross‐sectional multi‐level study
| Autor: | Thiago Machado Ardenghi, Vanessa Polina Pereira da Costa, Marcos Britto Correa, Marília Leão Goettems, Flávio Fernando Demarco, Ethieli R. Silveira, Marina Sousa Azevedo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education Dental Caries Cyberbullying symbols.namesake Contextual variable Dental Anxiety Epidemiology Prevalence Humans Medicine Poisson regression Child General Dentistry Socioeconomic status business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social environment stomatognathic diseases Cross-Sectional Studies Socioeconomic Factors symbols Anxiety Female School environment medicine.symptom business Caries experience Brazil Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 48:440-446 |
| ISSN: | 1600-0528 0301-5661 |
| Popis: | Objectives This cross-sectional study assessed the correlation between individual and school-related social environment variables with dental anxiety in Brazilian schoolchildren aged 8-12 years. Methods A sample of children from 20 private and public schools (n = 1211) from Pelotas, Brazil, were selected. Socioeconomic data were collected from parents, and data regarding children characteristics were collected using a questionnaire. Dental anxiety (the outcome) was assessed by the following question: 'Are you afraid of going to the dentist?' Dental examinations were performed to assess caries experience (DMFT ≥ 1). The social school environment was assessed by a questionnaire administered to schools' coordinators and considered: type of school, verbal violence between students, presence of gangs at school and cyberbullying episodes. Multilevel Poisson regression was used to investigate the association between school social environment and dental anxiety. Results The prevalence of dental anxiety was 9.1% (95%CI 7.5-10.8). For the individual variables, anxiety was more prevalent in girls [1.85 (1.21-2.81)], in children with less-educated mothers [1.50 (1.00-2.27)] and in children who never attended to the dentist [2.48 (1.65-3.72)]. For contextual variables, episodes of cyberbullying in school increased the prevalence of dental anxiety by almost 80% [1.78 (1.14-2.78)]. Conclusions The school social environment influences dental anxiety. The results suggest that it is important to establish strategies focused on promoting healthier environments and preventing cyberbullying in order to reduce the occurrence of dental anxiety. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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