title: Non-pharmacological management of the behaviour of pediatric dental patients.
abstract: Behaviour modelling is frequently used to modify children's behaviour. The psychological techniques of encouragement-reprobation are an integral part of the behaviour shaping. Three hundred clinically healthy children were recruited in this study. They were aged 54-96 months and allocated to three groups according to the specific technique used: group 1 in which we applied the "live patients model" technique, in group 2 the "encouragement-reprobation" techniques was applied and group 3 was a control group. The patient's behaviour was assessed using L. Venham's Cooperative Behavioral Scale. A behavioral improvement was noticed in the experimental groups after applying the techniques for behaviour modification. The comparison shows a statistically significant difference between the two experimental groups and the control one and absence of a significant difference between the influenced groups. The study shows that there is a stable for behaviour improvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Children's Dentistry, Higher Medical Institute, Plovdiv.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ilieva
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beltcheva
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016854:Dental Anxiety / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D019140:Dental Care for Children; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans