Disfunção temporomandibular e ansiedade em graduandos de Odontologia.

Abstract

Temporomandibular joint desorder has a multifactorial etiology, including psychological conditions like anxiety. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the prevalence of Temporomandibular joint desorder, anxiety and their levels in dental students of the Federal University of Campina Grande. This is a cross-sectional observational study with an inductive approach, adopting as a data collection strategy the Fonseca Anamnestic Index and the State- Trait Anxiety Inventory in a sample of 185 students. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and submitted to the chi-square test and Fisher's exact test considered significant at the level of 5%. The results shows that the majority of the sample is female (67%) with a mean age of 21.4 years. Moreover, 79% of students had some degree of dysfunction, the major part (72%) is embedded in the light degree. State anxiety and trait anxiety were more prevalent in moderate degree (79% and 72%, respectively). No significant statistical association between the presence and absence of Temporomandibular joint desorder and anxiety, whether trait or state, was identified in the studied sample with p = 0.484 and p = 0.297, respectively. It was concluded that there was a high prevalence of Temporomandibular joint desorder and anxiety in dental students, the importance of the detailed search for these signs and symptoms during the clinical examination is highlighted.