Dental Anxiety, Dental Pain
Conditions
Keywords
Anxiety, Pulpal pain, Self medication, Observational study
Brief summary
To describe and understand the self-medication behaviours of a population of adults coming to the Clermont-Ferrand dentistry department for acute pain of pulpal origin and of a population of adults coming to the specific care unit of the Clermont-Ferrand dentistry department or the Riom hospital for treatment under general anaesthesia.
Detailed description
Self-medication behaviour will be studied by means of a questionnaire. Questionnaires on insecurity, anxiety about dental care, items related to the ingestion function of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), a visual analogue pain assessment scale and the PCS-CF pain dramatisation scale will also be used.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALquestionnaire
questionnaires of precarity, dental anxiety, self medication, pain
Sponsors
University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Adult patient, male or female, coming to consult in the Clermont-Ferrand or Riom Hospital for acute pain of pulp origin and periapical OR eligible for dental treatment under general anesthesia in a context phobic. * Understanding and practicing French * giving informed consent to participate in research. * Affiliation to a Social Security scheme.
Exclusion criteria
* Patients under guardianship. * Patient's refusal to participate in the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| description of the self-medication behaviours | day 0 | evaluated by patient interrogation |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| level of anxiety | day 0 | : evaluated with IDAF 4C (anxiety module between 8-40, phobia module between 5-10 and anxious situations between 10 and 50), the higher the score, the more anxious the patient is |
| level of insecurity | day 0 | evaluated by questionnaire (EPICES (the patient is in situation of insecurity if the score is higher than 30)) |
| description of the oral health with the related to the ingestion function of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) | day 0 | each item is evaluated with a Lickert scale |
| visual analogue pain assessment scale and the PCS-CF pain dramatisation scale | Day 0 | PCS-CF scale is evaluated between 0 and 52, the higher the score, the more patient is over reacting faced with pain |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed