title: Mother-child interactions and young child behavior during procedural conscious sedation.
abstract: As many preschoolers are not able to cooperate with health-related invasive procedures, sedation can help with the child's comfort and allow the intervention to be done. It is scarcely known how parents affect children's behavior during dental treatment under conscious sedation. The aim of this exploratory study was to analyze the association between mother-child interactions in day-to-day family life and preschool children's behavior during dental treatment under conscious sedation.
  
  
  
  This cross-sectional study included 27 children aged 2-6 years and their mothers. The children's behavior during dental treatment under conscious sedation was verified through the analysis of videos and using an observational scale. Social skills of mothers were verified through interviews using the Parental Educative Social Skills Interview Script (RE-HSE-P); the sum of the scores allowed the establishment of the categories "clinical" and "non-clinical". We presented descriptive analyses and bivariate associations.
  
  
  
  Children's overall behavior during dental sedation was: very poor (n = 2), poor (n = 1), regular (n = 2), good (n = 9), very good (n = 9) and excellent (n = 4). Social skills varied: parental educational social skills (n = 24 clinical vs. n = 3 non-clinical); child social skills (n = 20 vs. n = 7), context variables (n = 15 vs. n = 12), negative educational practices (n = 12 vs. n = 15), child behavior problems (n = 7 vs. n = 20). There was no association between child behavior under sedation and social skills categories (P > 0.05).
  
  
  
  The majority of interviewed mothers reported issues in parental educational social skills and child social skills, which did not affect the outcomes of the children's behavior during the procedural conscious sedation.
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences Graduate Program, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Rua 235, Setor Universitário, CEP 74605-020, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
authors.forename: Daniella
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Miranda-Remijo
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, Faculdade de Educação, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Rua 235, Setor Universitário, CEP 74605-050, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
authors.forename: Mara Rúbia
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Orsini
authors.affiliation: Dentistry Graduate Program, Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Primeira Avenida, Setor Universitário, CEP 74605-220, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
authors.forename: Patrícia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Corrêa-Faria
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Dentistry, Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Primeira Avenida, Setor Universitário, CEP 74605-220, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. lsucasas@ufg.br.
authors.forename: Luciane Rezende
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Costa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016292:Procedural Sedation / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003814:Dentistry, Operative; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D066107:Social Skills
keywords: Child behavior; Child-rearing; Conscious sedation; Parent-child relations; Parenting