Psychological Distress and Emotional Pain Among Adult Attendees of a Dental Clinic: A Case-Control Study
| dc.contributor.author | Erinfolami, A.R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Olagunju, A.T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oshodi, Y.O. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Akinbode, A.A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fadipe, B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Adeyemo, W.L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-21T14:00:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-10-21T14:00:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-05-01 | |
| dc.description | Staff publications | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | We set out to carry out a case-control evaluation of psychological distress and emotional pain among adult attendees of a Nigerian dental clinic. A total of 201 subjects, made up of 101 dental patients (test group) matched with age and sex with 100 normal subjects (controls), was recruited into the study. All participants completed a designed socio-demographic questionnaire. General Health Question naire and Psyche ache Assessment Schedule were also administered to assess psychological distress based on cut-off scores ≥3 and emotional pain based on cut-off scores ≥28 respectively. The mean ages of study and control group were 33 (±12) and 36 (±13) years respectively, and both study and control groups were not significantly different in all the assessed socio-demographic parameters. Overall, 21.8% (n=22) of the subjects had psychological distress, while only 7% of the control group had psychological distress. This difference was statistically significant (P=0.003). Similarly, there was significant difference in the experience of psyche ache (unbearable psychological pain) as over a third of the dental patients (37.6%, n=38) had emotional pain, while only 13% of the controls experienced psych ache (P<0.001). In this study, the burden of psychological distress and emotional pain was many-fold in dental patients when compared with the controls. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Erinfolami, A.R., Olagunju, A.T, Oshodi, Y.O., Akinbode, A.A., Fadipe, B., Adeyemo, W.L. (2016). Psychological Distress and Emotional Pain Among Adult Attendees of a Dental Clinic: A Case-Control Study. Ment Illn. Vol.8(1):6006. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/6409 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Wolters Kluwer | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Ment Illn.;Vol.8(1) | |
| dc.subject | Dental patients | en_US |
| dc.subject | Emotional pain | en_US |
| dc.subject | Psychological distress | en_US |
| dc.subject | Research Subject Categories::ODONTOLOGY | en_US |
| dc.title | Psychological Distress and Emotional Pain Among Adult Attendees of a Dental Clinic: A Case-Control Study | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |