NIVELES DE ANSIEDAD EN LA CONSULTA ODONTOLÓGICA EN PACIENTES ADULTOS ATENDIDOS EN LA UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS

Objectives: to determine the levels of anxiety in adult patients attending consultation and dental treatment, identifying the presence and frequency of triggers anxiety and relate them to the sociodemographic characteristics of the study population.Methods: a cross- sectional study, with a sample of 355 adult patients attending dental clinics St. Thomas University in the first half of 2014. A survey previously validated was applied to establish the sociodemographic characteristics of the participants, as well as the test of dental anxiety of Norman Corah. The information was recorded in a database using the Epi -Info version 3.2.2 program, descriptive statistics for qualitative variables measures of central tendency and dispersion for quantitative variables was used, for bivariate analysis Chi squared test was used. Each patient voluntarily agree to participate.Results: there was no evidence of anxiety in 197 (55.6%) subjects; the most frequently anxiety level was “moderate” for 102 participants (28.8%), and “severe anxiety” in 34 cases (9.6%). The dental procedures that generated higher levels of anxiety were endodontic and dental extraction. We found an association between the different levels of anxiety and the variables age (p = 0.001), marital status (p = 0.010) and educational level (p = 0.036).Conclusions: the application of the test of Norman Corah allows establish that a high percentage of patients referred no anxiety about dental care and patients who reported moderate anxiety is the most representative. Endodontic treatments and extraction require troncular or infiltrative anesthesia, which increases anxiety found during the procedure.

• Autores: Martínez López, Carmen Alodia; Ramos Castañeda, Angie Paola; Mantilla García, María Alejandra; Duran Rueda, Alejandra Lizeth; Valencia Rodríguez, Leslie Andreina
• Fecha de publicación: 2014
• Institución: Universidad Santo Tomás
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional USTA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.usta.edu.co:11634/37094
• Acceso en línea: http://revistas.ustabuca.edu.co/index.php/USTASALUD_ODONTOLOGIA/article/view/1729; http://hdl.handle.net/11634/37094
• License: Derechos de autor 2018 UstaSalud