Presencia de ansiedad y su efecto en los signos vitales en pacientes sometidos a exodoncias en las clínicas de la Universidad Santo Tomás Bucaramanga, 2019 y 2020.

Abstract

Introduction: Nowadays, dental anxiety, which is experienced by patients undergoing dental extractions, has become more common than in other health care situations and this can be influenced by the attendance, continuity, success of the treatments and health condition. Nevertheless, it is a subject that often goes unnoticed or is sort of irrelevant to professionals in this matter. Objective: To determine the presence of anxiety and its relationship with the variation in vital signs experienced by patients who attend tooth extraction procedures in the dental clinics of the Santo Tomas University at the city of Bucaramanga. Materials and methods: descriptive cross-sectional observational study with a sample of 70 patients who have reached the age of majority and attended the sixth, ninth and tenth semester clinics. Collection of data was made through the Norman Corah Modified survey before the procedure and monitoring the patient’s vital signs before, during and after the dental surgery in order to observe its variation. For the purpose of establishing the presence of anxiety, univariate and bivariate analysis were used. Results: The median of age among the participants was 38 years old and the majority belonged to social class 3, had a high school education and were men. Vital signs had slightly variations, increasing systolic blood pressure and heart rate on the second shot, and only diastolic blood pressure changed on the last shot. The presence of anxiety was 8.57% in the participants and the only variable found to significantly contribute to this was the sex variable (p <0.05). Conclusions: according to the test results, there was a low presence of anxiety in patients, meanwhile being higher in women than in men, especially in those with a socioeconomic level 1 and an educational level reached in primary school. Furthermore, no relationship between vital signs and anxiety was observed.