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Role of recent stressful life events experience in the onset of TMJ dysfunction pain
Author(s) -
Speculand Bernard,
Hughes Anthony O.,
Goss Alastair N.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1984.tb01439.x
Subject(s) - medicine , formative assessment , interpersonal communication , psychology , social psychology , pedagogy
This study investigated the experience of recent stressful life events in 85 TMJ dysfunction patients and 85 control patients in the 6 months prior to onset by use of a semi‐structured interview. The effect of age was studied (under or over age 40 yr). TMJ patients experienced twice as many stressful life events in the 6 months before onset as did control patients. Events concerned problems of work, money, health, problems of loss and of interpersonal relationships. These had a greater negative impact on older patients who seemed less able to cope with them. Almost 50% of TMJ dysfunction onsets were attributable to life events which played a formative role in onset. This was calculated mathematically by use of “brought forward times”.