Cross-sectional study of self-reported pain related to temporomandibular disorders and emotional state of medical school faculty and students: Post-COVID-19 pandemic.

Autor: Galhardo APM; Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Anhanguera-Uniderp, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil.; Departamento de Obstetrícia e Ginecologia do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil., Andrade PR; Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Anhanguera-Uniderp, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil., Andrade LP; Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Anhanguera-Uniderp, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil., Cury MAA; Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Anhanguera-Uniderp, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil., Mukai MK; Departamento de Prótese da Faculdade de Odontologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil., Baracat EC; Departamento de Obstetrícia e Ginecologia do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil., Soares JM Jr; Departamento de Obstetrícia e Ginecologia do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Aug 26; Vol. 19 (8), pp. e0308988. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 26 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308988
Abstrakt: The social isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted in-person activities, which were immediately followed by adaptations to ensure, for example, the continuity of teaching. This generated emotional impacts on the academic community. Emotional states may trigger or emphasize conditions such as temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD), causing pain and limiting masticatory function. This study aimed to compare the students and the faculty of a medical school first in terms of the TMD-caused pain they experienced during social isolation and reported two months later, according to their recollections, using the TMD-Pain Screener questionnaire. The second basis for comparison was the emotional state generated by social isolation and its connection with TMD symptoms assessed through the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21), which considers perceptions at the time of data collection. Both questionnaires were responded to in May 2022 after the end of social isolation. The data were analyzed by the IBM-SPSS software for Windows 22.0 with a 5% level of significance. The results show that the self-reported TMD symptoms were more widespread (p = 0.002) and intense (p = 0.013) among students than among faculty and that all of the former's DASS-21 domains (depression, anxiety, and stress) were also more strongly evident (p<0.05). Only anxiety was more significant among the faculty (p = 0.027). Both groups pointed to social isolation as an aggravating factor of the symptoms (p<0.05). The conclusion is that the self-reported TMD-caused pain and all DASS-21 domains as experienced during social isolation were stronger and more prevalent among students than among faculty, and that only anxiety was statistically significant among faculty. Also, the emotional states resulting from social isolation may have aggravated TMD-caused pain in both groups.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Galhardo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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