ABSTRACT
Antecedentes: Las personas que sienten miedo y ansiedad muestran peores condiciones de salud bucal, postergando las citas odontológicas hasta tal punto de evitarlas. Objetivo: Determinar los factores asociados al miedo y la ansiedad en pacientes atendidos en las clínicas de la Facultad de Odontología de la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. Materiales y métodos: Se realizó un estudio cuantitativo tipo descriptivo transversal con 198 pacientes atendidos en las clínicas de la facultad de Odontología. Se aplicaron las encuestas: Dental Fear Survey (DFS), Escala de Ansiedad Dental de Corah Modificada (MDAS) y una tercera encuesta para identificar: características sociodemográficas y elementos, situaciones y sensaciones asociados a miedo a la ansiedad durante la consulta. Resultados: El 92,4% de los participantes presentaron algún grado de miedo en la consulta odontológica. El 48,7% presento ansiedad en algún grado. La presencia del miedo y ansiedad se encontró asociada con la evaluación de las experiencias previas en la consulta odontológica (Vp <0,001), evidenciado en la mayor proporción de individuos con miedo alto y ansiedad severa cuya experiencia fue negativa en comparación con las frecuencias observadas para aquellos con clasificación de ansiedad leve o moderada y miedo nulo o bajo. Conclusiones: Las experiencias traumáticas previas están relacionadas con el miedo y la ansiedad dental y pueden influir en el adecuado desarrollo de la consulta odontológica, por lo que se recomienda indagar al paciente acerca de estas antes de iniciar atención odontológica.
Background: People who feel fear and anxiety show worse oral health conditions than those who not, thus delaying dentist appointments to the point of cancelling all together. Aim: Determine the degree of fear, anxiety and associated factors in patients seen in the clinics of the Faculty of Dentistry of the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. Materials and methods: A quantitative cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with patients treated in clinics of the Faculty of Dentistry, for a universe of 941, a sample of 198 participants were calculated, not randomly selected. Three surveys were applied by the DFS (Dental Fear Survey), the MDAS (Anxiety Scale Modified Corah Dental) and a third survey to identify sociodemographic variables and factors associated with fear and anxiety. Results: The 92.4% of the participants presented some degree of fear in the dental practice. 48.7% have anxiety to some degree. The presence of fear and anxiety was found associated with the evaluation of previous experiences in dental practice (Vp <0.001), evidenced in the highest proportion of individuals with high fear and anxiety whose experience was negative compared to the frequencies observed for those with mild or moderate anxiety and zero or low fear. Conclusion: Previous traumatic experiences are related to fear and dental anxiety and can influence the proper development of the dental appointments, so it is recommended to inquire about these before starting with a dental treatment.
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Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been the primary tool used by governments and organizations to mitigate the spread of the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19. Natural experiments are currently being conducted on the impact of these interventions, but most of these occur at the subnational level - data not available in early global datasets. We describe the rapid development of the first comprehensive, labelled dataset of 1640 NPIs implemented at federal, provincial/territorial and municipal levels in Canada to guide COVID-19 research. For each intervention, we provide: a) information on timing to aid in longitudinal evaluation, b) location to allow for robust spatial analyses, and c) classification based on intervention type and target population, including classification aligned with a previously developed measure of government response stringency. This initial dataset release (v1.0) spans January 1st, and March 31st, 2020; bi-weekly data updates to continue for the duration of the pandemic. This novel dataset enables robust, inter-jurisdictional comparisons of pandemic response, can serve as a model for other jurisdictions and can be linked with other information about case counts, transmission dynamics, health care utilization, mobility data and economic indicators to derive important insights regarding NPI impact.
