Dentists' perceived stress and its relation to perceptions about anxious patients

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-80

  Moore, Rod ^a   Brødsgaard, Inger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Dental care; Dentist patient relations; Epidemiology; Occupational stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENMARK; DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL CARE; DENTIST; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PAIN; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SHAME; SOCIAL CLASS; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DENMARK; DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL CARE; DENTIST-PATIENT RELATIONS; DENTISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; ORAL HEALTH; PAIN; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, DENTAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SHAME; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0035259113     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0528.2001.00011.x     Document Type: Article

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