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Measuring Attentional Biases for Threat in Children and Adults
Published on: October 19, 2014
[News on prevalence of vicious habits in children]
Iulia Marinela Stefănescu1, Irina Zetu, M Rusu
1Universităţii de Medicină şi Farmacie "Gr. T. Popa" Iaşi.
Aim:
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of oral habits among children according to sex and location.
Material And Methods:
This study was conducted on 416 children aged 6-11 years old. The children were selected from urban and rural schools of Bacau and Iasi, Romania. Sex and location differences were calculated by using Fisher's exact test.
Results:
The results showed that the prevalence of oral habits was 38,70%; girls (61,5%) were more affected than boys and also the children from urban schools 65,8%. Mouth breathing was the commenest habit (59,5%), followed by thumb thrust (21,5%) and finger sucking (14,1%). The presence or absence of a habit was recording by interview and clinical examination.
Conclusions:
The prevalence of vicious habits in children in our study was 38.70% - representative of the population prevalence of children aged 6-11 years in Romania.
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