Effect of pre‐appointment inquiries on dental patients’ post‐appointment ratings of pain
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
- Vol. 59 (1) , 97-99
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1986.tb02671.x
Abstract
In order to test the possibility that an investigator''s inquiries about dental patients'' anxiety and expectations of pain will enhance their subsequent discomfort, two groups of 51 patients were asked after their appointment about the amount of pain they had experienced, but only one group was interviewed beforehand. No difference between these groups was found.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Anxiety, pain and type of dental procedureBehaviour Research and Therapy, 1984
- Post-operative pain: effect of extent of injury and attentionBrain Research, 1982