ArticleCureus2025
Knowledge, Perceptions, and Expectations of Dental Anesthesia Among Patients Attending the College of Dentistry Clinic in Hail, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionAnesthesia is unique because it is not a direct means of treatment; rather, it allows other physicians to do things that may treat, diagnose, or cure an ailment, which would otherwise be painful or complicated. In the preoperative period, there are a lot of goals of preparation, but one of the most important is to eliminate anxiety. The current study aims to assess the patients' knowledge regarding the anesthetist's role and their knowledge about dental anesthesia.
methodsIt is a sectional questionnaire prepared at the Faculty of Dentistry, Hail University, Hail, Saudi Arabia. The study population was female patients. The questionnaire consisted of a general part with questions on demography for all participants and three other sections containing multiple-choice questions. The data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS Statistics software, version 22.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA), and Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, USA) Results: A total of 100 patients participated in the survey; all of them were females; 86% of the participants were Saudis. Patients preferred general anesthesia because it allowed them not to see things during surgery (34%). The major reason for preferring regional anesthesia was its safety (56%), while the major reason for its refusal was concern about numbness (40%). The majority of patients reported that there are no benefits from visiting the anesthesia room before surgery (71%) and did not think that all pain types can be treated with anesthesia (83%). Finally, 64% of participants reported that physicians are not responsible for anesthesia, and 71% did not believe in preoperative anesthesia precautions.
conclusionMany of the patients in our research were unfamiliar with the role of anesthesia, its many forms and procedures, and the role of anesthesiologists both inside and outside of the operating room. This may be accomplished by interacting with patients, using print and electronic media, and becoming acquainted with the patients prior to surgery.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.