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Summary
Dental students experience emotional reactions during treatment, impacting patient care. Understanding these emotions is crucial for improving the dental treatment of anxious patients.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Dental Education
Background:
- The dentist's personality is recognized as important for treating anxious patients.
- Limited research exists on dental students' emotional responses in stressful clinical situations.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the emotional reactions of clinical dental students as both operators and patients.
- To compare dental students' psychological test results with normative values.
Main Methods:
- Psychological tests administered to 99 clinical dental students.
- Data analyzed against normative values, with sex-differentiated and anxiety-level subgroup analyses.
Main Results:
- Dental students exhibit emotional reactions comparable to general population norms.
- High state anxiety scores correlate with specific emotional responses in dental students.
Conclusions:
- Emotions of dental students can influence patient emotions and treatment outcomes.
- Further research is needed to explore the interaction between student and patient emotions in dentistry.