Emotional stimuli candidates for behavioural intervention in the prevention of early childhood caries: a pilot study

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14110/19:00108458

Result on the web

<a href="https://bmcoralhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12903-019-0718-4" target="_blank" >https://bmcoralhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12903-019-0718-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-019-0718-4" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12903-019-0718-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Emotional stimuli candidates for behavioural intervention in the prevention of early childhood caries: a pilot study

Original language description

BackgroundOral diseases, such as early childhood caries (ECC), have a complex etiology with common, behaviour-related risk factors. Appropriately targeted behavioural intervention using effective tools can help to eliminate risk behaviour leading to ECC. The aim of this study was to ascertain which visual stimuli with a supporting text evoke the strongest emotional response in infants&apos; mothers and, therefore, are suitable candidates for inclusion in behavioural interventions within the prevention of ECC.MethodsThirty-nine mothers of one-year-old children who filled out an originally designed electronic questionnaire, containing 20 visual stimuli with accompanying texts related to dental caries (10/10 with positive/negative intended emotional response), were included in this cross-sectional study. The emotional impact of each stimulus in the mothers was evaluated using the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) technique, which represents three emotional dimensions: valence, arousal, and dominance.ResultsEach of the stimuli was assessed by the mothers of infants based on its emotional impact. The real emotional response (evaluated according to the median of valence) was in line with the primarily intended response in 90% of cases (p&lt;0.05). The text with a warning evoked a greater emotional response (evaluated according to the median of arousal) in mothers than only the informative instruction (p&lt;0.05). The relationship between arousal and valence (r=-0.99; p&lt;0.05) indicates that the more aversive stimuli raise higher arousal. The significant correlation between valence and dominance shows that the more positive the stimuli, the higher feeling of control over the evoked emotion the mothers have (r=0.83; p&lt;0.05), and, on the contrary, the lowest control over emotion is correlated with higher arousal (r=-0.85; p&lt;0.05). Generally, mothers rated themselves as in high control of their emotions over the individual stimuli.ConclusionsThis pilot study proved that negative pictorial and text warnings about the risks of developing caries had the potential to evoke strong emotional responses in the mothers of infants. We identified three visual stimuli that could be included in future extensive motivation material in an attempt to affect the preventive behaviour of mothers, and thus the oral health of their infants.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30208 - Dentistry, oral surgery and medicine

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

BMC Oral Health

ISSN

1472-6831

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEB 18

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

33

UT code for WoS article

000459128800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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