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Relationship Between Mental Health and Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic in Dental Staff and Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the mental health and death anxiety among dental staff and students in school of dentistry during COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: It was a cross-sectional study among students (n = 300) and staff (n = 60) in School of dentistry in Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences dur...

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Autores principales: Jazaiery, Mahta, Rezaeifar, Kosar, Sayyah, Mehdi, Cheraghi, Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9162405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35664475
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.849868
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Cheraghi, Maria
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description OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the mental health and death anxiety among dental staff and students in school of dentistry during COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: It was a cross-sectional study among students (n = 300) and staff (n = 60) in School of dentistry in Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences during 2020. The instruments were a demographic questionnaire, Death Anxiety Scale, and Kessler Questionnaire. Data was analyze by using SPSS version 22, in all tests, the significance level was set at <0.05. RESULTS: The mean age of dental students and personnel was 23.96 and 40.08 years, respectively. The mean scores of death anxiety were higher in dental staff (8.53) than students (6.02) and the mean scores of mental health status were higher in students (14.78) than personnel (9.18). This indicates that death anxiety was higher in Dental staff, while students were in better mental health status. The correlation coefficient between death anxiety and mental health status was 0.366 among students (p < 0.001), while it was 0.429 among dental staff (p < 0.001), showing a medium relationship between death anxiety and mental health in both groups. CONCLUSION: The overall findings represent a significant but contradictory relationship between mental health status and death anxiety among dental staff and students during the prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic. This suggests the impact of confounding factors in this area, which can be studied by future researchers and policy makers to design health promotion interventions.
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spelling pubmed-91624052022-06-03 Relationship Between Mental Health and Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic in Dental Staff and Students: A Cross-Sectional Study Jazaiery, Mahta Rezaeifar, Kosar Sayyah, Mehdi Cheraghi, Maria Front Psychiatry Psychiatry OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the mental health and death anxiety among dental staff and students in school of dentistry during COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: It was a cross-sectional study among students (n = 300) and staff (n = 60) in School of dentistry in Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences during 2020. The instruments were a demographic questionnaire, Death Anxiety Scale, and Kessler Questionnaire. Data was analyze by using SPSS version 22, in all tests, the significance level was set at <0.05. RESULTS: The mean age of dental students and personnel was 23.96 and 40.08 years, respectively. The mean scores of death anxiety were higher in dental staff (8.53) than students (6.02) and the mean scores of mental health status were higher in students (14.78) than personnel (9.18). This indicates that death anxiety was higher in Dental staff, while students were in better mental health status. The correlation coefficient between death anxiety and mental health status was 0.366 among students (p < 0.001), while it was 0.429 among dental staff (p < 0.001), showing a medium relationship between death anxiety and mental health in both groups. CONCLUSION: The overall findings represent a significant but contradictory relationship between mental health status and death anxiety among dental staff and students during the prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic. This suggests the impact of confounding factors in this area, which can be studied by future researchers and policy makers to design health promotion interventions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9162405/ /pubmed/35664475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.849868 Text en Copyright © 2022 Jazaiery, Rezaeifar, Sayyah and Cheraghi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sayyah, Mehdi
Cheraghi, Maria
Relationship Between Mental Health and Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic in Dental Staff and Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Relationship Between Mental Health and Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic in Dental Staff and Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Relationship Between Mental Health and Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic in Dental Staff and Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Relationship Between Mental Health and Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic in Dental Staff and Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Relationship Between Mental Health and Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic in Dental Staff and Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Relationship Between Mental Health and Death Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic in Dental Staff and Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort relationship between mental health and death anxiety during covid-19 pandemic in dental staff and students: a cross-sectional study
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9162405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35664475
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.849868
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