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Perceived stress and bruxism in university students
BACKGROUND: Many studies have shown the correlation between bruxism and stress that affects the quality of life of university students. The present study highlights this correlation—for the first time—in a group of university students in Italy. METHODS: We have investigated the prevalence of awake a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28003024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2311-0 |
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author | Cavallo, Pierpaolo Carpinelli, Luna Savarese, Giulia |
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description | BACKGROUND: Many studies have shown the correlation between bruxism and stress that affects the quality of life of university students. The present study highlights this correlation—for the first time—in a group of university students in Italy. METHODS: We have investigated the prevalence of awake and asleep bruxism and its correlation with perceived stress in a group of 278 Italian undergraduate students (117 M). A self report questionnaire was constructed using a socio-demographic test, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and the item n. 8 of the Fonseca Questionnaire for presence of bruxism. RESULTS: The perceived stress score using PSS-10 scale was 32.2 (SD 4.6, 95% CL 31.6–32.7) for all the subjects, with significant gender difference: M = 31.2 and F = 32.9 (P = 0.0019). The prevalence for awake bruxism was 37.9% (F = 40.8%; M = 34.2%,), while for sleep bruxism was 31.8% (F = 33.3%; M = 29.1%), both without significant gender difference. A positive correlation, with significant concordance and dependence, between stress score and awake bruxism was present for male students only. CONCLUSIONS: University students showed higher bruxism and stress levels compared to the general population, with higher stress for females, but, even if female students show higher stress, a correlation between stress and bruxism exists only for male gender. Further studies should be performed. |
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spelling | pubmed-51780762016-12-28 Perceived stress and bruxism in university students Cavallo, Pierpaolo Carpinelli, Luna Savarese, Giulia BMC Res Notes Research Article BACKGROUND: Many studies have shown the correlation between bruxism and stress that affects the quality of life of university students. The present study highlights this correlation—for the first time—in a group of university students in Italy. METHODS: We have investigated the prevalence of awake and asleep bruxism and its correlation with perceived stress in a group of 278 Italian undergraduate students (117 M). A self report questionnaire was constructed using a socio-demographic test, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and the item n. 8 of the Fonseca Questionnaire for presence of bruxism. RESULTS: The perceived stress score using PSS-10 scale was 32.2 (SD 4.6, 95% CL 31.6–32.7) for all the subjects, with significant gender difference: M = 31.2 and F = 32.9 (P = 0.0019). The prevalence for awake bruxism was 37.9% (F = 40.8%; M = 34.2%,), while for sleep bruxism was 31.8% (F = 33.3%; M = 29.1%), both without significant gender difference. A positive correlation, with significant concordance and dependence, between stress score and awake bruxism was present for male students only. CONCLUSIONS: University students showed higher bruxism and stress levels compared to the general population, with higher stress for females, but, even if female students show higher stress, a correlation between stress and bruxism exists only for male gender. Further studies should be performed. BioMed Central 2016-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5178076/ /pubmed/28003024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2311-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Cavallo, Pierpaolo Carpinelli, Luna Savarese, Giulia Perceived stress and bruxism in university students |
title | Perceived stress and bruxism in university students |
title_full | Perceived stress and bruxism in university students |
title_fullStr | Perceived stress and bruxism in university students |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceived stress and bruxism in university students |
title_short | Perceived stress and bruxism in university students |
title_sort | perceived stress and bruxism in university students |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28003024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2311-0 |
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