Farokh-Gisour Elham, Hatamvand Marjan
Pediatric Dentistry Department, Center of Endodontic Research, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
Pediatric Dentistry Department, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
Open Dent J. 2018 Sep 28;12:631-637. doi: 10.2174/1745017901814010631. eCollection 2018.
BACKGROUND & AIM: Dentists are exposed to stress and tension as they have a close contact with the patients. The increase in stress may affect the dentists' performance and can be a major threat to the physical and mental health of the patients. Pediatric dentistry requires experience, without which the amateur dentists and students feel lack of self-confidence, and consequently be unable to deal with problematic patients. There is no study investigating stress during pediatric dentistry among the dentistry students as well as general and pediatric dentists in Iran. Regarding the importance ofthis subject, we aimed to evaluate the stress level among the aforementioned three dental service providers during pediatric dentistry.
MATERIALS & METHODS: This study was conducted on 300 dentistry students, general dentists, and pediatric dental specialists in Kerman, Iran. The data were collected using a questionnaire entailing demographic information and therapeutic practices of pediatric dentistry. After checking the participant's comments, the data were analyzed using version 16 (IBM, Texas, USA).
According to the results, the mean age of the participants was 28±5 years. Out of the 300 participants, 113 (37.7%) and 178 (59.3%) cases were male and female, respectively, and 9 (3%) participants did not fill out this part. Furthermore, 108 (36%), 173 (57.7%), 6 (2%), and 10 (3.3%) subjects were general students, general dentists, residents, and pediatric residents, respectively. Anesthesia injection in the mandible for an anxious child and amalgam restoration in the mandible led to the highest and lowest stress levels in the participants, respectively. Furthermore, the mean stress levels were significantly different between the practices performed in the maxilla and mandible (<0.001). In addition, the females showed a significantly higher level of stress, compared to the males (<0.001). The specialists had significantly lower stress than the dentistry students and general dentists (<0.001).
As the findings indicated, anesthetic injection to a nervous infant was the most stressful practice in pediatric dentistry. The results also showed that the pediatric dental specialists had lower stress level, compared to the students and general dentists.
牙医由于与患者密切接触，会面临压力和紧张情绪。压力的增加可能会影响牙医的工作表现，并且可能对患者的身心健康构成重大威胁。儿童牙科需要经验，缺乏经验的实习牙医和学生往往会缺乏自信，进而无法应对有问题的患者。伊朗尚未有研究调查牙科专业学生以及普通牙医和儿童牙医在儿童牙科治疗过程中的压力情况。鉴于该主题的重要性，我们旨在评估上述三类牙科服务提供者在儿童牙科治疗过程中的压力水平。
本研究在伊朗克尔曼的300名牙科专业学生、普通牙医和儿童牙科专家中进行。通过一份包含人口统计学信息和儿童牙科治疗实践的问卷收集数据。检查参与者的评论后，使用SPSS 16.0版本（美国德克萨斯州IBM公司）对数据进行分析。
根据结果，参与者的平均年龄为28±5岁。在300名参与者中，分别有113例（37.7%）男性和178例（59.3%）女性，9例（3%）参与者未填写这部分内容。此外，分别有108名（36%）普通学生、173名（57.7%）普通牙医、6名（2%）住院医师和10名（3.3%）儿童牙科住院医师。给焦虑儿童在下颌进行麻醉注射和在下颌进行汞合金修复分别导致参与者的压力水平最高和最低。此外，在上颌和下颌进行的操作之间，平均压力水平存在显著差异（<0.001）。此外，女性的压力水平显著高于男性（<0.001）。专家的压力明显低于牙科专业学生和普通牙医（<0.001）。
研究结果表明，给紧张的婴儿进行麻醉注射是儿童牙科治疗中压力最大的操作。结果还表明，与学生和普通牙医相比，儿童牙科专家的压力水平较低。
