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Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in the Setting of Dentistry: A Review Article
The worldwide pandemic has exposed healthcare professionals to a high risk of infection, exacerbating the situation of uncertainty caused by COVID-19. The objective of this review was to evaluate the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dental professionals and their patients. A literatu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9739953/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36498295 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316216 |
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author | De Haro, Juan Carlos Rosel, Eva María Salcedo-Bellido, Inmaculada Leno-Durán, Ester Requena, Pilar Barrios-Rodríguez, Rocío |
author_facet | De Haro, Juan Carlos Rosel, Eva María Salcedo-Bellido, Inmaculada Leno-Durán, Ester Requena, Pilar Barrios-Rodríguez, Rocío |
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description | The worldwide pandemic has exposed healthcare professionals to a high risk of infection, exacerbating the situation of uncertainty caused by COVID-19. The objective of this review was to evaluate the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dental professionals and their patients. A literature review was conducted using Medline-Pubmed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases, excluding systematic reviews, narratives, meta-analyses, case reports, book chapters, short communications, and congress papers. A modified version of the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) was used to evaluate the quality of the selected studies. The search retrieved 3879 articles, and 123 of these were selected for the review (7 longitudinal and 116 cross-sectional studies). Elevated anxiety levels were observed in dental professionals, especially in younger and female professionals. Except for orthodontic treatments, patients reported a high level of fear that reduced their demand for dentist treatment to emergency cases alone. The results suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has had psychological and emotional consequences for dental professionals and their patients. Further research is necessary to evaluate the persistence of this problem over time. |
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spelling | pubmed-97399532022-12-11 Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in the Setting of Dentistry: A Review Article De Haro, Juan Carlos Rosel, Eva María Salcedo-Bellido, Inmaculada Leno-Durán, Ester Requena, Pilar Barrios-Rodríguez, Rocío Int J Environ Res Public Health Review The worldwide pandemic has exposed healthcare professionals to a high risk of infection, exacerbating the situation of uncertainty caused by COVID-19. The objective of this review was to evaluate the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dental professionals and their patients. A literature review was conducted using Medline-Pubmed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases, excluding systematic reviews, narratives, meta-analyses, case reports, book chapters, short communications, and congress papers. A modified version of the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) was used to evaluate the quality of the selected studies. The search retrieved 3879 articles, and 123 of these were selected for the review (7 longitudinal and 116 cross-sectional studies). Elevated anxiety levels were observed in dental professionals, especially in younger and female professionals. Except for orthodontic treatments, patients reported a high level of fear that reduced their demand for dentist treatment to emergency cases alone. The results suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has had psychological and emotional consequences for dental professionals and their patients. Further research is necessary to evaluate the persistence of this problem over time. MDPI 2022-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9739953/ /pubmed/36498295 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316216 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review De Haro, Juan Carlos Rosel, Eva María Salcedo-Bellido, Inmaculada Leno-Durán, Ester Requena, Pilar Barrios-Rodríguez, Rocío Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in the Setting of Dentistry: A Review Article |
title | Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in the Setting of Dentistry: A Review Article |
title_full | Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in the Setting of Dentistry: A Review Article |
title_fullStr | Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in the Setting of Dentistry: A Review Article |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in the Setting of Dentistry: A Review Article |
title_short | Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in the Setting of Dentistry: A Review Article |
title_sort | psychological impact of covid-19 in the setting of dentistry: a review article |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9739953/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36498295 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316216 |
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