General and Health Anxiety in Temporomandibular Disorders: Correlates With Depression, Pain Intensity, Sleep Propensity, Oral Behaviours, Jaw Function, and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life.
Adrian Ujin Yap, Yunhao Zheng, Tiqian Liu, Yijun Li, Yi Liu, Xueman Zhou, Jun Wang, Xin Xiong
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Abstract
Background: Health anxiety (HA) has been underexplored in temporomandibular disorders (TMDs). This study compared general anxiety (GA) and HA across TMD subtypes, examining correlations with depression, pain intensity, sleep propensity, oral behaviours, jaw function, and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL).
Methods: Participants recruited from TMD patients completed a survey with the General Anxiety Disorder-7 Scale, Whitely Index-8, relevant DC/TMD Axis II measures, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, and Oral Health Impact Profile for TMDs, followed by a physical examination. They were subsequently categorised into Intra-Articular (IT), Pain-Related (PT), and Combined (CT) TMD groups based on DC/TMD algorithms. Data were analysed using the Chi-square Test, non-parametric tests, and logistic regression (α = 0.05).
Results: Among the 371 participants (mean age 29.8 years; 79.5% female), moderate-to-severe GA and depression were found in 15.1%, and high HA was noted in 19.7%. Significant differences were observed across the three TMD subtypes in the proportion of females (CT > PT/IT), age, GA, HA, depression, pain intensity, jaw functional limitation (PT/CT > IT), and OHRQoL (CT ≥ PT > IT). GA was strongly correlated with HA and depression and moderately correlated with OHRQoL, while HA was moderately correlated with both depression and OHRQoL (rs = 0.60-0.77). The multivariate model indicated that CT (OR 2.86), GA (OR 1.35), HA (OR 1.13), pain intensity (OR 1.03), and jaw functional limitation (OR 1.04) significantly increased the odds of low OHRQoL.
Conclusions: One-fifth of TMD patients exhibited HA, which was moderate to strongly correlated with GA and depression. GA and HA appear to have a greater impact on OHRQoL than depression.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Oral Rehabilitation aims to be the most prestigious journal of dental research within all aspects of oral rehabilitation and applied oral physiology. It covers all diagnostic and clinical management aspects necessary to re-establish a subjective and objective harmonious oral function.
Oral rehabilitation may become necessary as a result of developmental or acquired disturbances in the orofacial region, orofacial traumas, or a variety of dental and oral diseases (primarily dental caries and periodontal diseases) and orofacial pain conditions. As such, oral rehabilitation in the twenty-first century is a matter of skilful diagnosis and minimal, appropriate intervention, the nature of which is intimately linked to a profound knowledge of oral physiology, oral biology, and dental and oral pathology.
The scientific content of the journal therefore strives to reflect the best of evidence-based clinical dentistry. Modern clinical management should be based on solid scientific evidence gathered about diagnostic procedures and the properties and efficacy of the chosen intervention (e.g. material science, biological, toxicological, pharmacological or psychological aspects). The content of the journal also reflects documentation of the possible side-effects of rehabilitation, and includes prognostic perspectives of the treatment modalities chosen.