Levels of anxiety in patients undergoing simple tooth extraction: The possible contributing factors
- Title
- Levels of anxiety in patients undergoing simple tooth extraction: The possible contributing factors
- Abstract
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Aims: The current study aims to assess the levels of patients’ anxiety towards simple tooth
extraction, and the difference in pre-extraction anxiety levels; if present; between genders
and among different age groups. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and ninety-two
patients who presented for simple tooth extraction were recruited. Each participant filled a
self-administrated questionnaire; the tooth-extraction anxiety (TEA) scale and asked to rate
the amount of their anxiety toward tooth extraction on 11- point Numeric Rating Scale
(NRS). Results: Two hundred and sixty-three patients (90.07%) filled-out the questionnaire
completely. Cronbach’s α for the present sample was 0.84 correlated significantly with NRS
(0.48, P<0.01). Anxiety among patients was moderate, and mean scores of 4.68 and 2.76
were recorded on NRS and TEA scale respectively. The scores of anxiety in female patients
was slightly higher than in male patients but without statistical significance. When
considering the age groups of participants, significantly higher anxiety was depicted in the
young and old adult age groups than in middle-age adult group of patients. Conclusions:
Anxiety may be more predicted in female, young, and old-adult patients. - Scientific Type
- تطبيقي
- Journal volume
- vol.22,No.2
- Collaboration type
- مشترك
- Publish Date
- September 10, 2022
- Participated Universities (Publication)
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Alnoor University
- Ninavah Health Directorate/Ministry of Health
- Ninavah Health Directorate/Ministry of Health
- Scopus status
- Not in Scopus
- Clarivate status
- Not In Clarivate
- Pub. Med. status
- Not In PubMed
- Author (Publication)
- عبد الرحمن علي عبد الرحمن عبد الله
- Journal (Publication)
- Al-Rafidain Dental Journal (RDENTJ)
- Publisher (Publication)
- University of Mosul. College of Dentistry
- ISSN
- 1812-1217
- Country (Publication)
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Iraq
- Country type
- داخل العراق
- College (Publication)
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College of Dentistry
- Departement (Publication)
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Department of Dentistry
- Media
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Academic Paper
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