OBJECTIVE To determine the changes in dental anxiety, state anxiety, and trait anxiety levels of patients and their parents after 3 months of active orthodontic treatment. METHODS We evaluated 120 patients and one parent of each patient. State Anxiety (STAI-S), Trait Anxiety (STAI-T), and Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) were administered before orthodontic treatment (T1) and after 3 months...

AIMS Within a gynaecological surgical setting to identify the patterns and frequency of anxiety pre- and postoperatively; to identify any correlation between raised anxiety levels and postoperative pain; to identify events, from the patients' perspective, that may increase or decrease anxiety in the pre- and postoperative periods. BACKGROUND It is well documented that surgery is associated wi...

BACKGROUND Patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery who have increased anxiety levels have poorer outcomes than patients with lower levels, yet few studies have identified the concerns associated with this anxiety. OBJECTIVE To describe the concerns of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery and to identify concerns that were associated with higher levels of anxiety. ME...

Background: Hysterosalpingography is a specialized radiological procedure that is used to assess tubal patency for female factor infertility evaluation. Patients who come for this procedure are understood to have anxiety. Aim: To determine the levels of patient anxiety that will be necessary for pre-counselling before exposure to hysterosalpingography. To examine the significant difference betw...

conclusions: the results of this study confirmed aromatherapy with c. aurantium blossom oil as a simple, inexpensive, noninvasive, and effective intervention to reduce anxiety during labor. results: before the intervention, both groups had same levels of anxiety. however, the levels of anxiety at dilations of 3-4 and 6-8 cm were significantly lower in the aromatherapy group compared with the co...

information seeking anxiety can be interpreted as the fear and/or apprehension of searching for information resources during the information seeking process. the current study aims to determine the prevalence and correlates of the information seeking anxiety among a group of graduate students. the target population of the study comprised 11000 postgraduate students enrolled in various graduate ...

background: this study was designed to determine and compare the stress, anxiety and depression levels in behcet’s disease (bd) patients and a control group of normal individuals. materials and methods: one-hundred and six patients with bd were selected as cases and controls were 106 age- and sex-matched participants referred to the shiraz dental school clinics due to dental problems. we collec...

background and aim: psychological stress is considered to be an important risk factor for many inflammatory conditions including periodontal disease. a few studies have addressed the relationship between obesity and periodontal disease. so this cross sectional study was aimed to investigate relationship of psychological stress, obesity and periodontal disease in smokers and non smokers. materia...