Table 3.
Mean and median numbers of preventive and treatment procedures for parents and children according to total dental anxiety trajectories.
| Trajectories for Total Dental Anxiety | Preventive Procedures | Treatment Procedures | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| For Parent | For Child | For Parent | For Child | |||||
| Mean | Median | Mean | Median | Mean | Median | Mean | Median | |
| Fathers | ||||||||
| Stable low | 2.96 | 2.0 | 3.15 | 3.0 | 2.86 | 2.0 | 0.06 | 0.0 |
| Stable high | 5.57 | 4.0 | 3.58 | 4.0 | 4.09 | 3.0 | 0.09 | 0.0 |
| Stable moderate | 2.97 | 2.0 | 2.98 | 3.0 | 2.84 | 2.0 | 0.02 | 0.0 |
| Moderate increasing | 1.48 | 1.0 | 3.56 | 4.0 | 1.38 | 1.0 | 0.01 | 0.0 |
| High decreasing | 3.40 | 3.0 | 2.91 | 2.0 | 3.33 | 2.0 | 0.18 | 0.0 |
| p-value | <0.001 | 0.248 | 0.043 | 0.915 | ||||
| Mothers | ||||||||
| Stable low | 3.11 | 2.0 | 3.40 | 3.5 | 2.43 | 2.0 | 0.06 | 0.0 |
| Stable high | 3.83 | 3.0 | 3.24 | 3.0 | 3.41 | 2.0 | 0.06 | 0.0 |
| Moderate increasing | 3.87 | 3.0 | 3.07 | 3.0 | 2.52 | 2.0 | 0.02 | 0.0 |
| High decreasing | 6.30 | 4.0 | 2.80 | 3.0 | 4.51 | 3.0 | 0.09 | 0.0 |
| p-value | <0.001 | 0.019 | <0.001 | 0.431 | ||||
p-value for Jonckheere–Terpstra test.