Coping with dental treatment correlates of dispositional and domain specific monitoring and blunting

Zuuren, F.J. van; Jongh, Ad de; Beeckers, C.; Swinkels, P.

doi:10.1080/08870449908407331

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“…These participants were ".. rated by the nurses on the ward as the worse copers in comparison to all other groups of subjects…" (p. 841). Van Zuuren et al (1999) in a study of dental fears also suggested that such patients experience greater anxiety. Any anxiety management plan must therefore allow some flexibility within its boundaries for this less predictable although potentially sizeable group of patients.…”

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Psychological preparation for patients undergoing day surgery

Mitchell

2000

Ambulatory Surgery

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Psychological preparation for patients undergoing day surgery

Mitchell

2000

Ambulatory Surgery

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“…Given the strong relationship between state and trait anxiety, it is surprising that previous studies have failed to control for the effects of an underlying anxious disposition on pre-colposcopy state anxiety levels. Finally, coping style represents an important mediator between stressor and psychological outcome (van Zuuren et al 1999). Monitoring coping style refers to individual's habitual ways of cognitively dealing with stressful medical situations.…”

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Determinants of pre-procedural state anxiety and negative affect in first-time colposcopy patients: implications for intervention

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Walsh

2011

European Journal of Cancer Care

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Women experience significant emotional distress in relation to further diagnostic evaluation of pre-cancerous cell changes of the cervix. However, less is known about the specific variables that contribute to elevated state anxiety and negative affect prior to colposcopy. The study aims to identify psychosocial factors that predict distress in this patient group, which can help in the development of more sophisticated interventions to reduce psychological distress. Socio-demographic variables, scores for state anxiety, negative affect, trait anxiety, fear of pain, coping style, pain-related expectancy and knowledge were assessed in 164 first-time colposcopy patients immediately before the colposcopy examination. Twenty-six per cent of variance in pre-colposcopy state anxiety was significantly explained by marital status, parity, trait anxiety, fear of minor pain and expectations of discomfort. Twenty-nine per cent of variance in pre-colposcopy negative affect was significantly explained by trait anxiety and expectations of pain. Women who are single, have children, are high trait anxious, and anticipate pain and discomfort appear to be at risk for pre-colposcopy distress. Interventions aimed at reducing pre-colposcopy psychological distress should include situation-specific variables that are amenable to change, and trait anxious women are likely to benefit from interventions to reduce distress.

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“…A second consideration has also to be taken into account. It was suggested that studies investigating the impact of personality dispositions on dental distress should use homogeneous samples with respect to dental fear (25). In this context, it has been demonstrated that dentally anxious subjects report more pain in response to electric tooth shock than persons without dental fear (26, 27).…”

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