The influence of a child's age on the evaluation of smells and their hedonistic assessment

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-020-03778-2" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-020-03778-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00431-020-03778-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00431-020-03778-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The influence of a child's age on the evaluation of smells and their hedonistic assessment

Original language description

Olfactory function in children is most commonly evaluated using the odour identification test despite the fact that it is difficult to properly name odorants for young children. The goal of this study was to evaluate the pleasantness rating of odorants by children. The participants were 182 healthy children: the first group included 63 girls and 59 boys (aged 6-7) and the second included 31 girls and 29 boys (aged 11-12). We assessed olfaction using (1) standard method of odorant identification using a U-Sniff test and (2) classifying the hedonic tone of the odorants into 5 categories. The identification test&apos;s median differed in younger and older groups of children; the median was 8 and 10 respectively (p&lt; 0.01). The unpleasant hedonic tones were butter, fish and onion. The pleasant hedonic tones were apple, orange and peach. The younger usually categorised hedonic tones as pleasant, compared with the older children, who categorised the odorant&apos;s hedonic tones more often as neutral (p&lt; 0.01). Conclusion: This study demonstrated that older children are able to identify odours better than younger ones. The categorisation of hedonic tones differed depending on the subject&apos;s age. The younger children tended to categorise odorants as being pleasant and older children as neutral.

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

30206 - Otorhinolaryngology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Pediatrics

ISSN

0340-6199

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

179

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000559650200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85089379548