Trauma-related phenomena in anxious dental patients

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 52-58

  De Jongh, A ^a,b   Aartman, I H A ^a   Brand, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Ctr Psychother and Psychotrauma   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dental anxiety; Dental fear; Dental phobia; Impact of Event Scale; Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTAL CLINIC; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; SAMPLE SIZE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL CARE; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0038193850     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0528.2003.00025.x     Document Type: Article

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