Fear of COVID-19 in Madrid. Will patients avoid dental care?
| Autor: | Bendición Delgado-Ramos, María José González-Olmo, Martín Romero-Maroto, María Carrillo-Díaz, Ana Raquel Ortega-Martínez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Perceived fear to disease medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Population Perceived vulnerability Vulnerability Coronavirus infections Anxiety Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Dental Care Psychiatry education General Dentistry Disease avoidance education.field_of_study COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 business.industry RK1-715 Fear 030206 dentistry Dental care Avoidance behaviour Dentistry Test score Communicable Disease Control RNA Viral medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | International dental journal, In Press International Dental Journal International Dental Journal, Vol 72, Iss 1, Pp 76-82 (2022) |
| ISSN: | 0020-6539 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.identj.2021.01.013 |
| Popis: | INTRODUCTION: The objective of this research is to describe how perceived infectability, germ aversion, and fear of COVID-19 in adults in Madrid have changed from the beginning of the pandemic until the lockdown exit phase and their influence on dental care behaviour. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Some 961 participants were monitored in a study in Madrid at 2 time points: before lockdown (T0) and after completion of the total lockdown (T1). A questionnaire that included basic sociodemographic variables, the perceived vulnerability to disease scale (including perceived infectability and germ aversion), the fear of COVID-19 scale, and dental visiting behaviour after confinement for fear of COVID was administered. RESULTS: The participants had higher scores for infectability and germ aversion at T1 than at T0 (P < 0.01). Of those studied, 24.5% (235) of the participants would not go to the dentist for fear of COVID-19. Those who had a high perceived infectability scale score were at least 5 times more likely to not visit the dentist. Those with high COVID-19 fear were at least 6 times more likely to not visit the dentist, and those older than 60 years were 8 times more likely to not visit. CONCLUSIONS: The population's high levels of vulnerability to infectability and perceived germ aversion associated with fear of COVID-19 and the resultant avoidance behaviour to dental care will remain until an effective drug or vaccine for SARS-CoV2 is found. |
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