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https://doi.org/10.15644/asc58/2/5
Patients’ and Parents’ Concerns over Orthodontic Treatment during the COVID - 19 Pandemic
Magda Trinajstić Zrinski
; Katedra za ortodonciju Fakulteta dentalne medicine Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Hrvatska
Petra Anić
; Odsjek za psihologiju Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Hrvatska
Željana Matošić
; studentica doktorskog studija Stomatološkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Sandra Anić Milošević
; Katedra za ortodonciju Stomatološkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Senka Meštrović
; Katedra za ortodonciju Stomatološkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Marina Lapter Varga
; Katedra za ortodonciju Stomatološkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Objective: We aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the concern of adolescents
in orthodontic treatment, and to determine whether personality traits and parental perception were predictors of adolescent patients’ concerns. Participants and methods: The sample consisted of 229 adolescent patients (57.2% female) and 223 parents (65.1% female). Questionnaires included items about the importance of infection control and concern about treatment duration and results. Their
latent structure was determined using exploratory factor analysis. The Big Five Inventory was used for assessing personality traits. Predictors of patients’ and parental orthodontic concern and awareness of the importance of infection control measures were tested by the hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Results: Two factors were revealed for the patient questionnaire, Treatment concern (TC) and Awareness of the importance of measures (AM), and four factors for the parent questionnaire, Parents’ treatment concern (PTC), Parents’ awareness of the importance of measures (PAM), Parents’ concern about the pandemic (PCP) and Parents’ concern about their child with regards to the pandemic (PCC). Adolescents’ personality traits were not predictors of either TC or AM. PTC was a predictor of TC (p<0.001), accounting for 28% of the variance. PAM and the patient’s following of the news were predictors of AM (p≤0.022), accounting for 24% and 2% of the variance, respectively. Conclusion: Parental concern and awareness of measures had an important role in attitudes of adolescent orthodontic patients during the COVID- 19 pandemic, while personality traits did not. The clinician should put additional emphasis on communication with the parent.
Ključne riječi
COVID-19; Orthodontics; Orthodontic Appliances; Adolescents; Parents; Physician-Patient Relations; Orthodontic Treatment
Hrčak ID:
318094
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Datum izdavanja:
22.6.2024.
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