ArticleDentistry journal2018
The Influence of Stress and Anxiety on the Expectation, Perception and Memory of Dental Pain in Schoolchildren.
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- Factors affecting pain experience after lower third molar germectomy in teenagers-a clinical study.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2025Article
- Prevalence and associated factors of dental anxiety among adults attending public outpatient dental clinic in the Eastern Province, Sri Lanka.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of thaumaturgic distraction in alleviation of anxiety in 4-6-year-old children during inferior alveolar nerve block administration: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine · 2023Article
- The influence of protective psychosocial factors on the incidence of dental pain.Revista de saude publica · 2022Article
- Factors associated with children's perception of pain following dental treatment.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2020Article
- Oral and Psychological Alterations in Haemophiliac Patients.Biomedicines · 2019Review
- Assessment of Efficacy of Virtual Reality Distraction in Reducing Pain Perception and Anxiety in Children Aged 6-10 Years: A Behavioral Interventional Study.International journal of clinical pediatric dentistryArticle
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the association of stress and anxiety with the expectation, perception and memory of dental pain among schoolchildren. A follow-up study involving 46 children aged 9 to 12 years was conducted in a public school in the city of Petropolis (RJ), Brazil. Demographic characteristics, stress (children's stress scale), and state and trait anxiety (state⁻trait anxiety inventory) were recorded before a dental procedure to restore the occlusal surface of a permanent first molar under local anaesthetic. Dental pain was assessed using the faces pain scale before (dental pain expectation), immediately after (dental pain perception) and six weeks after (memory of dental pain) the dental procedure. Dental pain expectation scores were significantly higher than dental pain perception, independent of the levels of stress, state anxiety and trait anxiety. Children with high scores of stress (OR 1.05 95%CI 1.02⁻1.09), state anxiety (OR 1.15 95%CI 1.05⁻1.27) and trait anxiety (OR 1.18 95%CI 1.07⁻1.30) were more likely to report greater scores of dental pain expectation. Children anticipated more dental pain than what was actually perceived after the dental restoration. Children with greater levels of stress and anxiety have a distorted evaluation of expected dental pain before the dental procedure.
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