title: Psychosocial and Economic Status of the Parents with Children with and without Tooth Trauma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The main goal of this research is to try and understand influence of psychological and social factors in children with tendencies to repeat tooth trauma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Research included 147 patients, children of preschool and school age (88 boys and 59 girls). In the research patients were divided in two age groups: 5-8 and 9-12 years. In both groups there were 49 patients with no experience of dental trauma and 69 patients with experience of one dental trauma and 29 patients with repeated dental trauma. All patients that were involved in the study had previous experience with dental and medical treatment. Study included evaluation of dental anxiety and also factors that caused dental phobia previous their visit to the office in the children with no dental trauma compared to repeat dental trauma patients. On the whole study group differences considering sex, age and psychosocial status in the level of dental anxiety and dental fear were also measured.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Categories of children without trauma and with one or multiple trauma showed that it is a similar sex division in the categories. In the no trauma group participation of the boys is lower (46.9%) while in the group with repeated trauma their participation is significantly higher (79.3%). Based on that the risk of repeated dental trauma is characteristic of boys.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results of this study show that tested psychosocial variables do not differentiate participants according to the tested groups or in other words there is no difference between tested groups in their psychosocial standing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Gunduliceva 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, verzak@sfzg.hr.
authors.forename: Željko
authors.initials: Ž
authors.lastname: Verzak
authors.forename: Nataša Ivančić
authors.initials: NI
authors.lastname: Jokić
authors.forename: Vesna Erika
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Modrić
authors.forename: Danko
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bakarčić
authors.forename: Zoran
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Karlović
authors.forename: Zlatko
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ulovec
authors.forename: Dubravka Negovetić
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Vranić
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017523:Croatia; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D016854:Dental Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010290:Parents; D012008:Recurrence; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D018677:Tooth Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*