Psychological Profile of Dental Patients

Talebian, Alireza, M.D.

Status: Completed

Conditions: Indication for Modification of Patient Psychological Status

Treatments: Other: Psychological Measurement

Study type: Observational

Identifiers

NCT02792374

1818193574

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this descriptive investigation was to evaluate the psychological profile of dental patients in three levels: global level, the dimensional level, and the discrete symptom level and to compare it with a control group.

Full description

Many people is afraid of dental treatment specially local anesthesia and do not refer to dental clinics until they are obliged due to dental pain. There are so many articles in the literature about dental phobia and fear of anesthetic injection. Due to these evidences, dental people are supposed to show elevated psychological dimensions such as anxiety, and somatization.

We are going to know which psychological dimensions of dental patients may be elevated when they refer to dental clinics.

Enrollment: 97 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Must:

be ≥ 18 years old and have high school degree or higher

Exclusion criteria

insufficient verbal capacity to comprehend the items of the questionnaire.

Trial design

97 participants in 2 patient groups

Dental patients group

Description:

Psychological measurement is done when they refer to a dental clinic.

Treatment:

Other: Psychological Measurement

Control group

Description:

Psychological measurement is done when they refer to a dental clinic.

Treatment:

Other: Psychological Measurement