Personal anxiety determining prospects in dentistry

Abstract

Usually stress intensiveness is not assessed for helping the students and the patients. We propose using a test of a personal anxiety of Spilberger for this on the base of our results received. This test demonstrated valuable differences in dental department Iranian, Arabic and Ukrainian students before modules (exams) passage and during them with indexes increase at modules or exams passage (bigger difference was observed during session because of bigger material preparing for several exams than for one module). The maximal anxiety has been demonstrated by the Ukrainians, the middle one - in the Arabics and the minimal one - in the Iranians at all courses. The investigated group was 75 students (equally from 3 regions). Also this test showed statistically significant differencies in the Poltava Regional Hospital 25 patients before and during anesthesia performance.