COVID-19 induced stress among dentists affecting pediatric cooperation and alter treatment of choice

OBJECTIVES: To assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-rated stress levels among dentists who treated children during the outbreak and pediatric patient cooperation during dental treatments. METHODS AND MATERIALS: This cross-sectional study was assessed by enrolling an online questionnair...

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Autores principales: Khoury Absawi, Mervat, Fahoum, Kholoud, Costa, Liora, Dror, Amiel A., Bernfeld, Nicole M., Oren, Daniel, Einy, Shmuel, Kablan, Fares, Srouji, Samer
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Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8555180/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adoms.2021.100212
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author Khoury Absawi, Mervat
Fahoum, Kholoud
Costa, Liora
Dror, Amiel A.
Bernfeld, Nicole M.
Oren, Daniel
Einy, Shmuel
Kablan, Fares
Srouji, Samer
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Fahoum, Kholoud
Costa, Liora
Dror, Amiel A.
Bernfeld, Nicole M.
Oren, Daniel
Einy, Shmuel
Kablan, Fares
Srouji, Samer
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description OBJECTIVES: To assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-rated stress levels among dentists who treated children during the outbreak and pediatric patient cooperation during dental treatments. METHODS AND MATERIALS: This cross-sectional study was assessed by enrolling an online questionnaire among dental practitioners treated children during April 2020. RESULTS: Dentists with higher COVID-19-induced distress reported a lower degree of pediatric patient cooperation during dental treatments than dentists with lower reported stress (p value < 0.01). Additional factors negatively impacting patient cooperation were degree of professional practitioner seniority in pediatric dentistry, and perceived knowledge about the COVID-19 disease infectivity and feeling protective against viral transmission with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Also, stress levels among dentists treating children influenced medical decisions, such as the selected treatment approach influenced by COVID-19 considerations. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic has adverse effects on clinicians and pediatric patients. Educational programs should be developed to advance dental staff.
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spelling pubmed-85551802021-10-29 COVID-19 induced stress among dentists affecting pediatric cooperation and alter treatment of choice Khoury Absawi, Mervat Fahoum, Kholoud Costa, Liora Dror, Amiel A. Bernfeld, Nicole M. Oren, Daniel Einy, Shmuel Kablan, Fares Srouji, Samer Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Article OBJECTIVES: To assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-rated stress levels among dentists who treated children during the outbreak and pediatric patient cooperation during dental treatments. METHODS AND MATERIALS: This cross-sectional study was assessed by enrolling an online questionnaire among dental practitioners treated children during April 2020. RESULTS: Dentists with higher COVID-19-induced distress reported a lower degree of pediatric patient cooperation during dental treatments than dentists with lower reported stress (p value < 0.01). Additional factors negatively impacting patient cooperation were degree of professional practitioner seniority in pediatric dentistry, and perceived knowledge about the COVID-19 disease infectivity and feeling protective against viral transmission with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Also, stress levels among dentists treating children influenced medical decisions, such as the selected treatment approach influenced by COVID-19 considerations. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic has adverse effects on clinicians and pediatric patients. Educational programs should be developed to advance dental staff. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. 2022 2021-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8555180/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adoms.2021.100212 Text en © 2021 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Fahoum, Kholoud
Costa, Liora
Dror, Amiel A.
Bernfeld, Nicole M.
Oren, Daniel
Einy, Shmuel
Kablan, Fares
Srouji, Samer
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title_fullStr COVID-19 induced stress among dentists affecting pediatric cooperation and alter treatment of choice
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 induced stress among dentists affecting pediatric cooperation and alter treatment of choice
title_short COVID-19 induced stress among dentists affecting pediatric cooperation and alter treatment of choice
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adoms.2021.100212
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