An investigation of language used by children to describe discomfort during dental pulp-testing

International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry
R J TooleP Smith

Abstract

Studies of the descriptions of pain by children have neglected their linguistic development, therefore estimates of dental pain in children may not be accurate. This study sought (1) to identify words chosen by children to describe dental pain and (2) to establish the effect of linguistic development on that description. Seventy-eight consecutive children between the ages of 5 and 13 years attending a paediatric dental clinic. Each child completed the WORD reading comprehension test. They then underwent a pulp test and a simulated pulp test, administered by a dentist in a counterbalanced order, of a healthy primary canine or permanent incisor, according to the child's age. To describe each test, the children had to (1) select words from a list of 58 read by the experimenter and (2) give ratings on scales representing 'sore' and 'tingly'. Analysis of variance confirmed that the children chose more words for the pulp test than for the simulated test (P < 0.001); the former also elicited higher ratings for 'sore' and 'tingly'. The numbers of words chosen were transformed by a square root constant to ensure a normal distribution. Multiple regression analysis then showed that (1) the better the children's reading comprehension, the ...Continue Reading

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Jul 15, 2015·International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry·Fiona GilchristHelen D Rodd

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