Oral Health and Dental Management

The role of anxiety traits/state in the modulation of dental patient anxiety among adult patients

International Conference and Exhibition on Dentistry

March 18-20, 2015 Dubai, UAE

Azizah F Bin Mubayrik

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

The purpose of this study were to determine how the use of STAI aid in finding out the relationship among Saudi dental patient?s dental anxiety levels and other factors including age, sex, type of treatment, frequency of visits and dentists? degree. One-hundred ninety-eight randomly selected Saudi patients attending out-patient dental clinics at three main governmental hospitals in Riyadh City participated in the study. There were 198 subjects; 81 (40.9%) males and 117 (59.1%) females. The mean age was 28.01 years, and age range was 18-58 years. Gender was significantly related to anxiety at p>0.001. Females were more anxious than males. Males were significantly less anxious than women when treated by the specialist or consultant. It is concluded that STAI is an effective method of determining the anxiety levels of participants, by the use of which dental anxiety was considered to be sex-related. Males exhibited lower anxiety when treated by a higher professional rank. Age, frequency and type of dental visits did not have a major role among anxious Saudi patients.