Jazaiery Mahta, Rezaeifar Kosar, Sayyah Mehdi, Cheraghi Maria
Department of Community Oral Health, School of Dentistry, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, School of Dentistry, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Front Psychiatry. 2022 May 19;13:849868. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.849868. eCollection 2022.
We aimed to determine the mental health and death anxiety among dental staff and students in school of dentistry during COVID-19 pandemic.
It was a cross-sectional study among students ( = 300) and staff ( = 60) in School of dentistry in Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences during 2020. The instruments were a demographic questionnaire, Death Anxiety Scale, and Kessler Questionnaire. Data was analyze by using SPSS version 22, in all tests, the significance level was set at <0.05.
The mean age of dental students and personnel was 23.96 and 40.08 years, respectively. The mean scores of death anxiety were higher in dental staff (8.53) than students (6.02) and the mean scores of mental health status were higher in students (14.78) than personnel (9.18). This indicates that death anxiety was higher in Dental staff, while students were in better mental health status. The correlation coefficient between death anxiety and mental health status was 0.366 among students ( < 0.001), while it was 0.429 among dental staff ( < 0.001), showing a medium relationship between death anxiety and mental health in both groups.
The overall findings represent a significant but contradictory relationship between mental health status and death anxiety among dental staff and students during the prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic. This suggests the impact of confounding factors in this area, which can be studied by future researchers and policy makers to design health promotion interventions.
我们旨在确定2019冠状病毒病大流行期间牙科学院的牙科工作人员和学生的心理健康状况及死亡焦虑情况。
这是一项横断面研究，于2020年对阿瓦士医科大学牙科学院的300名学生和60名工作人员进行。使用的工具包括一份人口统计学调查问卷、死亡焦虑量表和凯斯勒问卷。数据采用SPSS 22版进行分析，在所有测试中，显著性水平设定为<0.05。
牙科学生和工作人员的平均年龄分别为23.96岁和40.08岁。牙科工作人员的死亡焦虑平均得分（8.53）高于学生（6.02），学生的心理健康状况平均得分（14.78）高于工作人员（9.18）。这表明牙科工作人员的死亡焦虑较高，而学生的心理健康状况较好。学生中死亡焦虑与心理健康状况的相关系数为0.366（<0.001），而牙科工作人员中为0.429（<0.001），表明两组中死亡焦虑与心理健康之间均存在中等程度的关系。
总体研究结果表明，在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，牙科工作人员和学生的心理健康状况与死亡焦虑之间存在显著但相互矛盾的关系。这表明该领域存在混杂因素的影响，未来的研究人员和政策制定者可以对此进行研究，以设计促进健康的干预措施。
