Psychological Profile of Dental Patients

Completed

• Conditions: Indication for Modification of Patient Psychological Status

• Registration Number: NCT02792374
• Lead Sponsor: Talebian, Alireza, M.D.

Brief Summary

The objective of this descriptive investigation was to evaluate the psychological profile of dental patients in three levels: global level, the dimensional level, and the discrete symptom level and to compare it with a control group.

Detailed Description

Many people is afraid of dental treatment specially local anesthesia and do not refer to dental clinics until they are obliged due to dental pain. There are so many articles in the literature about dental phobia and fear of anesthetic injection. Due to these evidences, dental people are supposed to show elevated psychological dimensions such as anxiety, and somatization.

We are going to know which psychological dimensions of dental patients may be elevated when they refer to dental clinics.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-01
• Primary Completion: 2015-04
• Study Completion: 2015-06
• Study First Submitted: 2016-05-26
• Status Verified: 2016-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-06-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-06-06
• Study First Posted: 2016-06-07
• Last Update Posted: 2016-06-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 97

Inclusion Criteria

Must:

be ≥ 18 years old and have high school degree or higher

Exclusion Criteria

insufficient verbal capacity to comprehend the items of the questionnaire.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Nine psychological dimensions measured using a self-administered scale (SCL-90-R)	through study completion, an average of 1 year	The subjects are supposed to consider the last week and answer all questions of psychological questionnaire.