Open AccessEvaluation of anxiety levels and their characteristics in dental care: Cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Renata P Piano,
Walbert de Andrade Vieira,
Juliana Sousa-Silva,
Luiz Renato Paranhos,
Lilian Rigo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/ijdr.ijdr_325_18
Subject(s) - anxiety , observational study , medicine , cross sectional study , confidence interval , descriptive statistics , statistic , dental fear , feeling , family medicine , clinical psychology , psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , pathology
Anxiety is defined as an emotion produced by a set of feelings and physical changes. Many patients are afraid of some procedures involved in dental therapy.