- Title
- Dental anxiety and oral health following stroke: a pilot study
- Creator
- Nangle, Matthew R.; Adams, Alexandra G.; Henry, Julie D.
- Relation
- BMC Oral Health Vol. 22, Issue 1, no. 568
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-022-02618-z
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Background: Oral health is often poorer in people living with acquired brain injury relative to non-clinical controls. However, although anxiety disorders become more common following stroke, no study to date has tested whether dental anxiety might contribute to stroke survivors’ increased vulnerability to poorer oral health. This pilot study reports the first test of whether the anxiety disturbances that commonly present following stroke extend to dental anxiety, and if dental anxiety in this group is linked to poorer oral health. Materials and methods: First-time stroke survivors (N = 35) and demographically matched controls (N = 35) completed validated measures of dental anxiety, oral health, negative affect, and life satisfaction. Results: Stroke survivors did not differ from controls in their overall levels of dental anxiety or oral health, but uniquely for the stroke group, dental anxiety was strongly associated with poorer oral health, and this effect remained significant even after controlling for negative affect and life satisfaction. Conclusion: Stroke survivors who have higher levels of dental-related anxiety may be at increased risk of poorer oral health.
- Subject
- older adults; oral health; dental anxiety; stroke; burden of disease; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1483809
- Identifier
- uon:51208
- Identifier
- ISSN:1472-6831
- Rights
- Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Language
- eng
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