ArticleClinical oral investigations2025
The determination of patient-based experiences with smartphone-based report of awake bruxism using a diary.
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- Management of awake bruxism: a systematic review.BMC oral health · 2026Pooled it
- Development and validation of the short form OHIP-TMD (SF-OHIP-TMD): a four-factor eight-item scale for assessing oral health impact in temporomandibular disorders.Clinical oral investigations · 2026Observational
- Sleep Bruxism Self-Report and Awake Bruxism: An Ecological Momentary Assessment.Oral diseases · 2025Article
- Family history of bruxism: a case-control study based on the ecological momentary assessment of awake bruxism.Journal of oral & facial pain and headache · 2025Article
- Comparison between two different registration protocols for the count of sleep bruxism events in a sample of healthy individuals.Clinical oral investigations · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Cigarette Smoking and Awake Bruxism: Does Smoking Increase the Frequency of Masticatory Muscle Activities?Journal of oral rehabilitation · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectivesIn recent years, a smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) approach for assessing awake bruxism (AB) has attracted growing interest, both in clinical and research settings. The present study was designed to investigate subjects' experience using an EMA-based smartphone application to detect factors that could hamper or facilitate its use for clinical and research purposes. MATERIALS AND
methodsThirty-two patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) pain (14 males, 18 females; mean age 28.3 ± 12.1 years) were recruited at the Orofacial Pain Unit of the University of Siena, Siena, Italy. They were monitored for one week to collect data on their AB behaviors. Time investment, feelings, encountered difficulties, and reasons for not using the app were assessed in a diary with 5-point Likert scales. Descriptive analysis of quantitative data was assessed, and content analysis of textual data was performed.
resultsQuantitative data showed a good experience with the app (median of 4). The main motivation to use the EMA-based smartphone application was to gain insight into their own AB behaviours. The most negative experience was the short time window available to answer to the alert.
conclusionThe EMA-based smartphone application was well accepted for multiple day evaluation. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: These results open up important clinical scenarios for AB evaluation as well as the possibility to carry out large-scale studies on general population samples and/or on selected subpopulations.
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