STUDY REGARDING THE ANXIETY LEVEL OF PATIENTS FROM THE EMERGENCY DENTAL OFFICE WITHIN THE EMERGENCY ROOM OF MOBILE EMERGENCY SERVICE FOR RESUSCITATION AND EXTRICATION (UPU-SMURD) SIBIU

摘要

Our study is based on identifying the level of anxiety as state and trait of patients presenting atthe Emergency Dental Office from the County Clinical Emergency Hospital of Sibiu. The tool used is thestate-trait anxiety inventory (STAI). The results show an increase in the level of state anxiety at the sametime with the increase of the education level, while the level of trait anxiety is slightly lower in those withhigher education than the rest. In males, the level of state anxiety regarding the dental interventions andthe level of trait anxiety was significantly associated with the age of the respondents. State anxietyscores regarding dental interventions have positively associated with anxiety scores as a personal trait.Over 70% of STAI-STAIT and STAI-TRAIT values were above the average and significantly higher thanthe validated average values for the Romanian population.