Dental Anxiety and Fear among Medical Field Students at Al Quds University

Hantash, R. O. Abu

doi:10.9734/bjmmr/2014/6405

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“…This was expected and is in agreement with results from other studies [16,17,21]. One obvious explanation is that the level of knowledge about dentistry, severity of dental diseases and possible inconvenience while receiving dental treatment is higher among dental students.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…In addition, conversion tables can be used to compare our findings with results of MDAS from other studies [36]. Nonetheless, levels of DA in our medical and dental students were found to be lower [16,18,21,23] or comparable [15] with that reported in studies among other medical or dental students.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…Researchers have used global questions [19], different scales [15,16,24,26] or different DAS score cut-offs to assess DA [21], which may complicate the comparability of these studies with our results. The DAS and MDAS are the most frequently used tools to measure DA in university students.…”

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Prevalence of and factors associated with dental anxiety among medical and dental students of the Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, North-West Russia

Drachev

Brenn

Trovik

2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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The objective was to assess the prevalence of and factors associated with dental anxiety (DA) in medical and dental students in North-West Russia. This cross-sectional study included 422 medical and 285 dental undergraduate Russian students aged 18–25 years from the Northern State Medical University in Arkhangelsk. Corah’s Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) was applied to measure DA. Information on socio-demographic and socioeconomic factors, oral health behaviour and general and oral health was obtained from a structured, self-administered questionnaire. A clinical examination was performed to assess caries experience, Simplified Oral Hygiene Index, and Gingival Index. DAS score ≥13 was found in 13.7% and 2.2% of medical and dental students, respectively. Female sex (incidence rate ratio [IRR] = 1.11, p = 0.013), lower education of mother (IRR = 1.13, p = 0.001), and poor self-assessed oral health (IRR = 1.15, p < 0.001) were associated with DA in medical students. Corresponding factors in dental students were female sex (IRR = 1.16, p = 0.001), irregular dental visits (IRR = 1.19, p = 0.001), infrequent tooth-brushing (IRR = 1.17, p = 0.007), pain in mouth (IRR = 1.09, p = 0.031) and number of missing teeth (IRR = 1.13, p = 0.007). The prevalence of high DA was lower in dental students than in medical students. DA was associated with sex, mother’s education, poor oral health behaviour and self-assessed and clinically assessed oral health.

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Prevalence of and factors associated with dental anxiety among medical and dental students of the Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, North-West Russia

Drachev

Brenn

Trovik

2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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“…Many questionnaires and scales have been established to investigate dental anxiety and fear [27,28,30,32,35,37]. The DAS is perhaps the most commonly used; it is a four-item, multiple-choice questionnaire that assesses the degree of anxiety.…”

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“…Numerous studies have shown that younger subjects are more likely to have dental anxiety than are elderly individuals [25,26]. Many researchers have concentrated on studying dental anxiety in university students [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37], and the incidence of anxiety ranges from 11% to 27.5% among students at different universities globally [38][39][40]. Higher dental anxiety has been reported in non-dental students than in dental students, which might be because of inadequate dental health education, which leads to high dental anxiety among undergraduate students from nondental colleges [27][28][29], and additional decreases in dental anxiety have been revealed among dental students during the course of their dental training [9,41].…”

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Dental Anxiety and Fear among a University Population in a Sample from Yemen

Madfa

Al‐Zubaidi

Shibam

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Background: Many patients and clinicians consider dental fear to be a major challenge. Knowledge about dental students’ own experiences with dental anxiety is very important. The present study, therefore, aimed to examine the levels of dental anxiety and fear among students in relation to their field of study and gender. Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 720 (360 women and 360 men) recruited from the College of Dentistry and the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Science and Technology in Sana'a, Yemen. Corah’s Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) and Dental Fear Survey (DFS) were used to measure anxiety and fear among the study population. Spearman's correlation was applied to analyse the relationships among the anxiety measurements and the relationship between the DAS and DFS tests. Chi-square tests and linear regression analyses were applied to analyse the associations between dental anxiety or fear and contextual variables. Results: Out of the 720 students enrolled, 713 students (354 men and 359 women) completed and returned the questionnaire, yielding a response rate of 99.03%. The associations among dental anxiety measurements and the DAS and DFS was statistically significant ( p < 0.01). Students from the dental colleges had less anxiety and fear than did those from the humanities and social sciences college ( p < 0.05). Men were less anxious and fearful than women ( p < 0.05). Dental anxiety and fear were more associated with women than were other contextual variables [for fear (OR = 1.14, p = 0.001); for anxiety (OR = 1.90, p = 0.001)]. Conclusions: Dental anxiety was found to be related to dental fear. Women were more anxious and fearful than men. Dental students were less anxious and fearful than those from the humanities and social sciences college. A lack of suitable dental health education may result in higher levels of anxiety and fear among students from non-dental colleges in Yemen.

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Dental Anxiety among Medical and Paramedical Undergraduate Students of Malaysia

Gunjal

Pateel

Parkar³

2017

International Journal of Dentistry

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Aim. To assess the dental anxiety level among dental, medical, and pharmacy students of MAHSA University, Malaysia. Materials and Methods. A cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted among 1500 undergraduate students of MAHSA University. The Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) was used to measure dental anxiety among the study population. The responses were assessed by 5-point likert scale ranging from 1 to 5. The level of anxiety was categorized into lowly anxious (5–11), moderately anxious (12–18), and severely anxious ≥19. Out of 1500 students enrolled, 1024 students (342 males and 682 females) completed and returned the questionnaire having response rate of 68.26%. Results. There was a statistically significant difference (P < 0.001) when the mean dental anxiety scores were compared among the three faculties and dental students had lowest mean score (11.95 ± 4.21). The fifth year (senior) dental students scored significantly (P = 0.02) lower mean anxiety score as compared to the first dental students (junior). The students were anxious mostly about tooth drilling and local anesthetic injection. Conclusions. Dental students have a significantly low level of dental anxiety as compared with medical and pharmacy students. Incorporation of dental health education in preuniversity and other nondental university curriculums may reduce dental anxiety among the students.

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Dental Anxiety and Fear among Medical Field Students at Al Quds University

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Prevalence of and factors associated with dental anxiety among medical and dental students of the Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, North-West Russia

Prevalence of and factors associated with dental anxiety among medical and dental students of the Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, North-West Russia

Dental Anxiety and Fear among a University Population in a Sample from Yemen

Dental Anxiety among Medical and Paramedical Undergraduate Students of Malaysia

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