title: Camera-related behaviours of female dental nurses and nursery school children during fluoride varnish application interactions in nursery school settings.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate camera awareness of female dental nurses and nursery school children as the frequency of camera-related behaviours observed during fluoride varnish applications in a community based health programme.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty-one nurse-child interactions (three nurse pairs and 51 children) were video recorded when Childsmile nurses were applying fluoride varnish onto the teeth of children in nursery school settings. Using a pre-developed coding scheme, nurse and child verbal and nonverbal behaviours were coded for camera-related behaviours.
  
  
  RESULTS
  On 15 of 51 interactions (29.4%), a total of 31 camera-related behaviours were observed for dental nurses (14 instances over nine interactions) and children (17 instances over six interactions). Camera-related behaviours occurred infrequently, occupied 0.3% of the total interaction time and displayed at all stages of the dental procedure, though tended to peak at initial stages.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Certain camera-related behaviours of female dental nurses and nursery school children were observed in their interactions when introducing a dental health preventive intervention. Since the frequency of camera-related behaviours are so few they are of little consequence when video-recording adults and children undertaking dental procedures.
authors.affiliation: Bute Medical School, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, UK. yz10@st-andrews.ac.uk
authors.forename: Yuefang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Gillian M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Forbes
authors.forename: Gerry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Humphris
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002327:Cariostatic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003149:Community Dentistry / Q000379:methods; D003726:Dental Assistants / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005460:Fluorides, Topical / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012578:Schools, Nursery; D014741:Video Recording
chemical_list: D002327:Cariostatic Agents; D005460:Fluorides, Topical