Factors associated with dental anxiety and attendance in middle‐aged and elderly women

作者：Catharina Hägglin, Magnus Hakeberg, Margareta Ahlqwist, Marianne Sullivan, Ulf Berggren · 发表于：Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology · 年份：2000 · DOI：10.1034/j.1600-0528.2000.028006451.x · 被引用次数：150 · 研究领域：Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques、Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes、Empathy and Medical Education

The aim of this study was to analyze the association between dental anxiety, dental attendance, health status and social factors. Our previous studies have shown that dental anxiety declines with age and is associated with poor oral health. In addition, correlations between dental anxiety, dental utilization and dental status have been revealed. However, the association of these factors with general health and social factors has not been analyzed in our previous studies. In a study of women's health in Göteborg, Sweden in 1992, 1.017 urban women aged 38 to 84 years took part in a series of investigations including clinical examinations, interviews and questionnaires. In addition to descriptive and simple inference statistics, a two-part multiple logistic regression model was utilized to investigate dental anxiety and dental utilization. Dental fear was less prevalent among older women, dentate or not, although 10% of females 62 years of age and older still reported high dental anxiety (DAS > or = 12). 94% of the younger (< or = 62 yr) and 76% of the older (> or = 70 yr) women reported regular dental attendance. When separating all women into dentate and edentulous groups, 94% of the dentate and 11% of the edentulous respondents reported regular dental care. Due to the large difference in dental attendance between dentate and edentulous women, these groups were analyzed separately. Multiple logistic regression analyses showed that the following factors were associated with irr...