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Prevalence of pacifier-sucking habits and successful methods to eliminate them--a preliminary study
Viviane V Degan1, Regina M Puppin-Rontani
1Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Oral Physiology, Piracicaba School of Dentistry/UNICAMP, Brazil.
Purpose:
The goal of this study was to verify the prevalence of nutritive (breast-feeding and bottle-feeding) and non-nutritive (pacifier) sucking habits, the methods used to eliminate them, and success of these methods.
Methods:
To collect the data, 502 questionnaires were distributed to parents of 0- to 6-year-old children.
Results:
Bottle-feeding was used by 83% and pacifier by 63% of children. The professional's explanation, the use of substances on the pacifier, the abrupt interruption of the habit, and parents' explanations were efficient in 90%, 80%, 64%, and 38% of the cases, respectively.
Conclusions:
Sucking habits had a high prevalence in this sample. An indirect linear relationship between breast-feeding and pacifier use demonstrated that the more the child was breast-fed, the less the pacifier was used. The most efficient method to end the pacifier-sucking habit was professional explanation; however, it was used less often.
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