Temporomandibular disorders in association with stress among students of national dental care

Other Title(s)

اضطرابات المفصل الفكي الصدغي و علاقتها بالضغط النفسي لدى طلاب منظمة رعاية الأسنان الوطنية

Author

Dib, Fadya

Source

Damascus University Journal for Medical Sciences

Issue

Vol. 36, Issue 1 (30 Jun. 2020)6 p.

Publisher

Damascus University

Publication Date

2020-06-30

Country of Publication

Syria

No. of Pages

6

Main Subjects

Dental

Abstract EN

Background: A close relationship had been reported between depression, anxiety and many disease symptoms or disorders.

This is true for temporomandibular disorders which is a collective term embracing a number of clinical problems that involve the masticatory musculatures, temporomandibular joint and associated structures, or both.

This study designed to evaluate the association of stress with temporomandibular disorders among National Dental Care (NDC) students.

Materials and methods:The sample's size of 80 students of first year (NDC) (37males and 43 females) and 80 (30 males and 50 females) of the second year.

Firstly all the students subjected for stress questionnaire, secondly the stressful students subjected to different combination of clinical and questionnaire measures according to the research diagnostic criteria of temporomandibular disorders (axis I) which have standardized series of diagnostic tests based on clinical signs and symptoms.

Data are analyzed by using Z-test and chi-square.

Results: The results obtained from this study showed that no significant differences between classes in the percentage of stressful students with temporomandibular disorders according to the clinical examination but in both classes, females' students showed higher percentage of temporomandibular disorders than males of same class.

Bruxism was significantly higher among students of second year.

Conclusions: This study revealed that stress of studying at second year has no effect on temporomandibular disorders prevalence.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Dib, Fadya. 2020. Temporomandibular disorders in association with stress among students of national dental care. Damascus University Journal for Medical Sciences،Vol. 36, no. 1.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1275443

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Dib, Fadya. Temporomandibular disorders in association with stress among students of national dental care. Damascus University Journal for Medical Sciences Vol. 36, no. 1 (2020).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1275443

American Medical Association (AMA)

Dib, Fadya. Temporomandibular disorders in association with stress among students of national dental care. Damascus University Journal for Medical Sciences. 2020. Vol. 36, no. 1.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1275443

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-1275443