HUBUNGAN ANTARA POLA ASUH ORANGTUA DENGAN TINGKAT KECEMASAN ANAK USIA 6-12 TAHUN DALAM KUNJUNGAN PERAWATAN GIGI DAN MULUT DI RSGM UMY
Abstract
Anxiety is a natural response when someone meet a new situation and when they act improperly is a natural response of the anxiety1. Children anxiety when visiting the dentist resulted that the children don’t want to check they’re oral cavity to the dentist and it is the cause of a lot of problems on their oral health. 5% to 52% of children who visited the dentist with an anxiety can make the treatment at the dentist’s practice became very difficult 2. Behavior problem in children due to excessive anxiety tend to from multifactorial cause, one of that is the parenting of the parent 3.. The aim of this study was to know is there any correlation between the parenting and the level of anxiety in children aged 6-12 years-old who in dental and oral care visit at RSGM UMY. This study was an analytic observational study with cross sectional design. The subject in this study is pediatric patient with ages 6-12 years-old and their parents who did dental and oral care in RSGM UMY and meet inclusion criteria. The instrument in this research are instrument of parenting questioner by Rachmawati and Visual Analogue Scale. The result of Chi-Square analyzes shows that there is a significantly correlation between the parenting and the level of anxiety in children aged 6-12 years-old in dental care visit at RSGM UMY by value p= 0.000 (p<0.05).