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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Dental Nurses' Mental Health in Germany: A Nationwide Survey during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Mohamed Mekhemar, Sameh Attia, Christof Dörfer, Jonas Conrad

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in the Setting of Dentistry: A Review Article.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  8. US dental health care workers' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2022
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  10. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Dentistry and Dental Education: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mohamed MekhemarClinic for Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology, School of Dental Medicine, Kiel University, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus B, 24105 Kiel, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4294-757X
Sameh AttiaDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Klinik Str. 33, 35392 Giessen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9174-6435
Christof DörferClinic for Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology, School of Dental Medicine, Kiel University, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus B, 24105 Kiel, Germany.
Jonas ConradClinic for Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology, School of Dental Medicine, Kiel University, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus B, 24105 Kiel, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2516-3351
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel · DEJustus-Liebig-Universität Gießen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several studies have found a rise in the rate of psychological discomfort among healthcare personnel since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. In this study, we analyzed the relationship between psychological variables of anxiety, depression, stress, avoidance, intrusion and hyperarousal and several factors among German dental nurses. For this poll, dental nurses were asked nationwide to take part via an online-based survey from July 2020 to January 2021. This survey gathered data on demographics, as well as psychological assessments through the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R) instrument, and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21). The correlations between DASS-21/IES-R ratings and sociodemographic data were investigated using univariate analyses (Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests). Single comparisons were performed using the Dunn-Bonferroni post hoc test if a relevant test result was significant followed by multiple linear regressions. Furthermore, 252 dental nurses took part in the study and showed overall normal or mild results of all psychological variables. Having immune-deficiency or chronic diseases, employment at a dental practice, being married, having no children and seeing the pandemic as a financial threat were presented as significant risk factors (

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COVID-19PandemicsAnxietyCross-Sectional StudiesDental AssistantsDepressionGermanyHumansMental HealthSARS-CoV-2Stress, PsychologicalanxietyCOVID-19dental assistantsdepressionmental healthrisk factors

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PMID34360401
PMCPMC8345776
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