Table 5.
Mean and median numbers of preventive and treatment procedures for parents and children according to treatment-related dental anxiety trajectories.
| Trajectories for Treatment-Related 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 | 2.92 | 2.0 | 3.13 | 3.0 | 2.83 | 2.0 | 0.05 | 0.0 |
| Stable High | 3.93 | 3.0 | 3.53 | 3.5 | 3.48 | 2.0 | 0.05 | 0.0 |
| Low increasing | 1.85 | 2.0 | 3.64 | 4.0 | 0.92 | 1.0 | 0.02 | 0.0 |
| High decreasing | 3.71 | 3.0 | 2.79 | 2.5 | 3.35 | 3.0 | 0.10 | 0.0 |
| p-value | 0.021 | 0.297 | 0.795 | 0.714 | ||||
| Mothers | ||||||||
| Stable low | 3.14 | 2.0 | 3.39 | 3.0 | 2.47 | 2.0 | 0.06 | 0.0 |
| Stable high | 3.79 | 3.0 | 3.18 | 3.0 | 3.00 | 2.0 | 0.06 | 0.0 |
| High decreasing | 5.97 | 4.5 | 3.38 | 3.0 | 4.17 | 3.5 | 0.06 | 0.0 |
| p-value | 0.351 | 0.161 | 0.387 | 0.404 | ||||
p-value for Jonckheere–Terpstra test.