著者

大村 満晴 河村 晃代 難波 美保子 壷内 智郎 大町 耕市 岡崎 好秀 下野 勉

出版者

Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry

雑誌

日本歯科心身医学会雑誌 (ISSN:09136681)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, no.2, pp.148-154, 1991-12-25 (Released:2011-09-20)

参考文献数

6

被引用文献数

4

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Weinstein and Domoto reported that almost dental fear of adult's were based on the dental treatment during their childhood and so we can prevent these problem. We study for these problem from a point of veiw as prevention of dental fear. We reported about dental anxiety and fear for dental and non dental students with using a questionnaire before. This time we performed a dental fear survey by using a new questionnaire that had some questions concerning generalized anxiety. And tried to compare the results of dental fear survey that had achieved for Japanese residents in Seattle, U. S. A. and for native people in the U. S. A. Subjects were 3041 Japanese in Japan, 419 Japanese in the U. S. A.(Japanese residents) and 1019 Americans in the U. S. A.The results obtained were as follows;1. The proportion of the people who have some dental anxiety was 82% for Japanese, 82% for Japanese residents and 50% for Americans. The people who were hurt at the last visit to a dental office was 59%, 68% and 16% respectively. The people who did not feel comfortable asking questions about the dentists or the staff was 37%, 44%, and 10% respectively.2. In the data of Japanese in Japan, we found some differencse between high dental fear group and low dental fear group for all the categories of respondents.3. In the data of Japanese in Japan, a significant correlation between responses to questions for generalized anxiety and for dental anxiety was found.This study shows that dental anxiety is related not only to specific stimuli of dental treament, but also to anxiety of trust for the dental staff, to anxiety of unusual physical reactions, to anxiety for their own oral health and to generalized anxiety.Recently informed consent was noticed. So it is most important to make a comfortable situation a good relationship petween patients and dental staff. And in the study also in the clinic, we must not take up only reactions that have appeared when anxiety is over the physiologic limit. But, before that, the things, we should be interested in, are considering a lot of information about sociology, economics and anthropology around medicare and patients from the view point of prevention of dental fear with behavioral science.