Camera-related behaviours of female dental nurses and nursery school children during fluoride varnish application interactions in nursery school settings.
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.
Zhou
Yuefang
Y
Bute Medical School, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, UK. yz10@st-andrews.ac.uk
Forbes
Gillian M
GM
Humphris
Gerry
G
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
D002327:Cariostatic Agents; D005460:Fluorides, Topical