Research Article
Dental Pain in Children with Intellectual Disabilities: Caregivers’ Perspective
Table 2
Caregivers’ and investigators’ reporting of children’s dental pain.
| Questions to caregivers | Variables | Healthy children (%) | Children with ID (%) | value |
| Do you think your child has dental pain? | No | 12 (22.6) | 6 (20.7) | 0.04 | Yes | 41 (77.4) | 23 (79.3) | 0.84 |
| How frequent is your child’s dental pain? | Never | 12 (22.6) | 7 (24.1) |
0.3 | Occasionally | 27 (50.9) | 13 (44.8) |
0.86 | Always | 14 (26.4) | 9 (31) | |
| How severe is your child’s dental pain?* | Mean ± SD | | | 0.35 | Median | 4 | 5 | 0.73 |
| When does pain mostly occur? | During meals | 29 (70.7) | 14 (66.7) | | During daytime | 1 (2.4) | 0 | 0.76 | At night | 5 (12.2) | 3 (14.3) | 0.86 | Multiple occasions | 6 (14.6) | 4 (19) | |
| Questions to investigators | Variables | Healthy children (%) | Children with ID (%) | value |
| Do you think this child has dental pain? † | No | 5 (9.4) | 1 (3.1) |
0.4 | Yes | 48 (90.6) | 31 (96.9) |
| How severe is this child’s dental pain? †† | Mean ± SD | | | 0.78 | Median | 7 | 7 | 0.43 |
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*Mann-Whitney U test used for comparison.
†Fisher exact test used for comparison.
††t-test used for comparison.
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