Dental Pain in Children with Intellectual Disabilities: Caregivers’ Perspective

Table 2

Caregivers’ and investigators’ reporting of children’s dental pain.

Questions to caregivers
Variables		Healthy children; 𝑛 (%)	Children with ID; 𝑛 (%)	𝑥^2; 𝑃 value
Do you think your child has dental pain?	No	12 (22.6)	6 (20.7)	0.04
	Yes	41 (77.4)	23 (79.3)	0.84
How frequent is your child’s dental pain?	Never	12 (22.6)	7 (24.1)	0.3
	Occasionally	27 (50.9)	13 (44.8)	0.86
	Always	14 (26.4)	9 (31)
How severe is your child’s dental pain?^*	Mean ± SD	4.1±3.07	4.36±3.05	0.35
	Median	4	5	0.73
When does pain mostly occur?	During meals	29 (70.7)	14 (66.7)
	During daytime	1 (2.4)	0	0.76
	At night	5 (12.2)	3 (14.3)	0.86
	Multiple occasions	6 (14.6)	4 (19)
Questions to investigators
Variables		Healthy children; 𝑛 (%)	Children with ID; 𝑛 (%)	𝑥^2; 𝑃 value
Do you think this child has dental pain? ^†	No	5 (9.4)	1 (3.1)	0.4
	Yes	48 (90.6)	31 (96.9)
How severe is this child’s dental pain? ^††	Mean ± SD	6.3±2.87	6.78±2.7	0.78
	Median	7	7	0.43

^*Mann-Whitney U test used for comparison.
^†Fisher exact test used for comparison.
^††t-test used for comparison.