Xu Jing, Gu Qin, Lu Haixia, Fan Juan, Ye Wei
Department of Preventive Dentistry, Ninth People's Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, 639 Zhizaoju Road, Shanghai, China.
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 600 Wan Ping Nan Road, Shanghai, China.
Oral Dis. 2024 Apr;30(3):1724-1732. doi: 10.1111/odi.14577. Epub 2023 Apr 5.
To compare the personalities, social avoidance and distress, and anxiety status of Chinese patients with and without objective halitosis, and investigate the association among these psychological disorders.
Patients who complained of bad breath and diagnosed with objective halitosis were enrolled into the halitosis group, while patients without objective halitosis were enrolled into the control group. The questionnaires included the sociodemographic profile of the participants, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), Social Avoidance and Distress Scale (SAD), and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI).
A total of 280 patients were assigned into objective halitosis group (n = 146) and control group (n = 134). The extraversion subscales (E) score of the EPQ in the halitosis group were significantly lower than that in the control group (p = 0.001). The total SAD score and proportion of patients with anxiety symptoms in the BAI scale in the objective halitosis was significantly higher than that in the control group (p < 0.05). There was a negative correlation between the extraversion subscale and the total SAD score, Social Avoidance and Social Distress subscales (p < 0.001).
Patients with objective halitosis have more introverted personality traits and are more likely to have social avoidance and distress than the nonhalitosis population.
比较有和无客观口臭的中国患者的性格、社交回避与苦恼以及焦虑状况，并探讨这些心理障碍之间的关联。
将主诉口臭且被诊断为有客观口臭的患者纳入口臭组，将无客观口臭的患者纳入对照组。问卷包括参与者的社会人口学资料、艾森克人格问卷（EPQ）、社交回避与苦恼量表（SAD）和贝克焦虑量表（BAI）。
共280例患者被分为客观口臭组（n = 146）和对照组（n = 134）。口臭组EPQ的外向性分量表（E）得分显著低于对照组（p = 0.001）。客观口臭组的SAD总分及BAI量表中焦虑症状患者的比例显著高于对照组（p < 0.05）。外向性分量表与SAD总分、社交回避和社交苦恼分量表之间存在负相关（p < 0.001）。
与无口臭人群相比，有客观口臭的患者性格更内向，更易出现社交回避与苦恼。
