Assessment of Relationship between Pain and Anxiety Following Dental Extraction—A Prospective Study

Sharma, Saurabh; Majumder, Kaberi; Rao, Jiaming; Arya, Varun; Siwach, Vijay; Gulia, Sunil

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“…It has been reported that a patient with high DAS and DFS scores would be more likely to present a high pain response than a patient with lower scores. 3 There are mixed results observed by various studies. This can be attributed to the reason that anxiety and fear measurement is subjective and individual, and the assessment and screening is difficult because of its physical and psychological features.…”

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“…Anxiety, and fear are highly subjective and are affected by so many factors; a single question may not adequately assess all aspects. 3 Overall DFS scores showed that age group (20-35 yrs) patients were not fearful of dental treatment when compared to age group (40-55 yrs) patients. This suggest that older adults experience and process emotions differently than younger adults, with less of a bias toward negative emotion, and possibly less autonomic response to strong emotional states, than younger adults.…”

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“…Few studies also reported similar results with DAS and DFS. 3,9,19 Question no. 3 (Imagine you are in the dentist's chair to have your teeth cleaned.…”

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“…1 It has been also called as dental phobia, odontophobia, dentophobia, or dental fear in the literature. 3 It is a future-oriented emotion characterized by negative effect and apprehensive anticipation of potential threats, and results in hypervigilance and somatic tension. 4 The role of anxiety in dentistry is complex and powerful, as described convincingly in the monograph by Milgrom et al 5 Dental anxiety/fear is quite prevalent among children and adults; it prevents patients from seeking dental care and affects their treatment decision making.…”

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“…A person's response is similar in both situations where fear is aroused by a real, specific stimulus and anxiety can be thought of as anticipatory in nature. 3 Many scales were developed in order to assess dental anxiety and dental fear. Corah Dental Anxiety Scale and dental fear survey was proven to be popular among dental researchers.…”

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Fear and Anxiety among patients treated by scaling in Periodontally healthy subjects

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A B S T R A C TBackground: Anxiety and fear experience represent significant problems in dental practice and are the factors that discourage the demand for treatment. They affect the use of health care services, treatment decision-making, and responses to periodontal treatment. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate fear and anxiety in patients undergoing scaling and root planing. Materials and Methods: Total of 80 patients were selected and grouped into 20-35 yrs and 40-55 yrs and each age group had 20 males and 20 females, so 40 were males and 40 were females. They were given a structured questionnaire dealing with dental fear and dental anxiety to fill. Statistical analysis was done by Tukey's multiple post hoc, Two-way ANOVA and Chi -square test. Results: The mean dental anxiety score (DAS) for males was 6.67±3.24 and for females it was 6.57±2.30. The mean DAS score for 20-35yrs was 6.025±2.37 and for 40-55yrs it was 7.22±3.02. But statistically significant difference was not found in the DAS scores in both sex and age groups. The mean dental fear survey (DFS) for males was 28.9±9.4 and for females was 30.5±6.56. The mean DFS score for 20-35yrs was 28.42±8.06 and for 40-55yrs it was 30.97±7.89. But this in the DFS scores was also not found statistically significant in both sex and age groups. When DAS and DFS scores were compared, there was a statistically significant correlation. Conclusion: An understanding of the presence of the anxiety and fear can help dentists to understand what patients feel about dental treatment procedures and aid dentist efforts to improve patients care. They should treat patients and seek to avoid fear and anxiety and discomfort in their patients caused by the treatment.

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“…Few studies also reported similar results with DAS and DFS. 3,9,19 Question no. 3 (Imagine you are in the dentist's chair to have your teeth cleaned.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Mobile Pain Management Applications in Developed versus Developing Countries (Preprint)

Mupfururirwa¹,

Nembaware²,

Morrice³

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BACKGROUND The impact of mobile phones and their applications in healthcare (mobile health) is well established for a range of diseases and cross-cutting complications, such as pain. While numerous mobile health (mHealth) pain interventions have been established, an evaluation of their prevalence, adequacy and distribution remains limited. OBJECTIVE This study aims at reviewing and comparing current pain management mHealth tools in high- versus low-income countries. METHODS A literature and application (app) store search was conducted in May 2021 using combinations of the following keywords: “pain management”, “pain”, “mobile health”, “telemedicine”, and “app”. Literature searches were conducted in PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Review Library, and Google scholar. App store searches were conducted in Google Play and Apple App Store. Data characteristics descriptive analysis was performed using R software to summarize different datasets and compute p-values (P) for testing the significance of different hypotheses with the significance level set to 0.05. RESULTS The search identified 40 publications (literature search) and 230 mHealth applications (app store search), revealing a non uniform distribution of search categories (χ2= 133.7, P < 0.004) with a ratio approximating 1:6 (OR = 5.730, 95%CI:3.745-8.909, P < 0.004). About 86.7% of these 270 applications (apps) are from high-income countries, showing a statistically significant non uniform distribution of country categories: high- and low-income (χ2= 145.2, P < 0.004) approximating the theoretical distribution of a 7:1 ratio (OR = 6.476, 95%CI:4.180-10.222, P < 0.004). Moreover, there is no significant difference in the proportion of search categories between country categories ( χ2= 0.113, P = 0.737) and the difference in pain app prevalence in high- versus low-income countries is not statistically significant. Finally, we have observed that pain-tracking apps are significantly more prevalent in developed countries in comparison to low-income countries. CONCLUSIONS As expected, pain management app prevalence is higher in high-income countries. However, more research is required to readily comprehend the effectiveness of these apps.

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Relationship Between Dental Anxiety and Pain Experience During Dental Extractions

Kumar

2017

Asian J Pharm Clin Res

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Assessment of Relationship between Pain and Anxiety Following Dental Extraction—A Prospective Study

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Fear and Anxiety among patients treated by scaling in Periodontally healthy subjects

Fear and Anxiety among patients treated by scaling in Periodontally healthy subjects

Comparative Analysis of Mobile Pain Management Applications in Developed versus Developing Countries (Preprint)

Relationship Between Dental Anxiety and Pain Experience During Dental Extractions

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