Psychometric and biohormonal indices of dental anxiety in children. A prospective cohort study

Stress

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 296-304

  Yfanti, Konstantina ^a   Kitraki, Efthymia ^a   Emmanouil, Dimitris ^a   Pandis, Nikolaos ^b,c   Papagiannoulis, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Private Practice   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dental anxiety; Dental treatment; Local anesthesia; Salivary alpha amylase; Salivary cortisol; School children; State anxiety

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMYLASE SALIVA ISOENZYME; HYDROCORTISONE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DENTAL ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SALIVARY ALPHA-AMYLASES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84903711344     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2014.918602     Document Type: Article

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