Dental anxiety is defined as an abnormal fearing or dread toward preventive or therapeutic visits by a dentist and unreasonable anxiety against dental procedures. It is estimated that dental anxiety affects one-third of the general population. Its physical and cognitive symptoms may result in behavioral issues such as avoidance of early dental visits that troubles both patient and dentist. In o...

objective : the present study is investigating the attribution style in patients with the anxiety and depression comorbidity. method: subjects are 26 patients with major depression, 25 patients with generalized anxiety disorder, 17 patients with comorbidity of anxiety and depression, and 30 normal individuals. the aparatus used in the study for data collecting were beck depression inventory, be...

background & aim : this study aimed to discover the lived experiences of patients transferred from the intensive care unit (icu) to a general ward, to reach a deeper understanding of this phenomenon. methods & materials: this is a qualitative study with an interpretative phenomenological approach, which is conducted at hospitals affiliated to universities, and private hospitals of tehran in 201...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of dental anxiety in a group of children aged 3 to 5 years and to explore the relationships between dental anxiety and general fearful nature of the child. MATERIALS & METHODS A total of 250 children were selected for the study after due selection via inclusion criteria. Pre-school anxiety scale by Spence and Rapee (1999) was us...