THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MOTHER PARENTING AND LEVELS OF DENTAL ANXIETY IN PATIENTS AGED 7-12 YEARS AT THE DENTAL POLY OF LASINRANG PINRANG HOSPITAL

Abstract

Background: Dental anxiety is not only influenced by age, but also psychosocial factors such as children's behavior towards the dentist. Dental anxiety is a common response that a person will experience prior to dental treatment. The child's behavior during dental treatment shows a cooperative attitude with the child being quite calm, communicating well with the dentist and asking lots of questions, so that the child is able to undergo treatment to the fullest. Parenting is influenced by culture in their environment Parenting patterns include the way parents give rules, gifts and punishments, and the way parents give attention and responses to their children. The Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (CDAS) is a method of measuring anxiety that is widely used to measure a person's level of anxiety. The Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (CDAS) is developed to measure stress or psychological state. Objectives and methods: To determine the correlation between maternal parenting and dental anxiety levels in patients aged 7-12 years at Lasinrang Pinrang Hospital. Observational with analytic research design with a cross sectional study approach using questionnaire interviews and calculated using SPSS chi square. The sample in this sample research were as many as 53 samples. Results: Based on the results of the SPSS statistical test, it is found that the most widely applied parenting pattern is democratic parenting (90.6%), the highest level of anxiety is moderate with the result (49.1%). With the chi-square test, that parenting style has no any correlation with the anxiety level of dental patients aged 7-12 years at Lasinrang Pinrang Hospital. Conclusion:There is no influence of parenting style on the level of dental anxiety in patients aged 7-12 years at Lasinrang Pinrang Hospital