Strategies to manage patients with dental anxiety and dental phobia: literature review

DP Appukuttan - Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dentistry, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Dental anxiety and phobia result in avoidance of dental care. It is a frequently encountered
problem in dental offices. Formulating acceptable evidence-based therapies for such …

[PDF][PDF] Predictors of postoperative pain and analgesic consumption: a qualitative systematic review

HYV Ip, A Abrishami, PWH Peng, J Wong, F Chung - Anesthesiology, 2009 - stopbang.ca
Materials and Methods The purpose of the systematic review was to identify the risk factors
determined by multivariate analyses for postoperative pain and analgesic consumption. We …

The Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale: development and validation of a scale to measure fear of pain

LM McCracken, C Zayfert, RT Gross - Pain, 1992 - journals.lww.com
Fear of pain has been implicated in the development and maintenance of chronic pain
behavior. Consistent with conceptualizations of anxiety as occurring within three response …

Fear and anxiety: divergent effects on human pain thresholds

JL Rhudy, MW Meagher - Pain, 2000 - Elsevier
Animal studies suggest that fear inhibits pain whereas anxiety enhances it; however it is
unclear whether these effects generalize to humans. The present study examined the effects …

Exacerbation of pain by anxiety is associated with activity in a hippocampal network

A Ploghaus, C Narain, CF Beckmann… - Journal of …, 2001 - Soc Neuroscience
It is common clinical experience that anxiety about pain can exacerbate the pain sensation.
Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI), we compared activation …

The influence of negative emotions on pain: behavioral effects and neural mechanisms

K Wiech, I Tracey - Neuroimage, 2009 - Elsevier
The idea that pain can lead to feelings of frustration, worry, anxiety and depression seems
obvious, particularly if it is of a chronic nature. However, there is also evidence for the …

Development of the fear of pain questionnaire-III

DW McNeil, AJ Rainwater - Journal of behavioral medicine, 1998 - Springer
Fear and/or anxiety about pain is a useful construct, in both theoretical and clinical terms.
This article describes the development and refinement of the Fear of Pain Questionnaire …

A systematic literature review of 10 years of research on sex/gender and pain perception–part 2: do biopsychosocial factors alter pain sensitivity differently in women …

M Racine, Y Tousignant-Laflamme, LA Kloda, D Dion… - Pain, 2012 - Elsevier
This systematic review summarizes the results of 10years of laboratory research on pain and
sex/gender. An electronic search strategy was designed by a medical librarian to access …

Personality, preoperative anxiety, and postoperative outcomes: a review

W Ji, C Sang, X Zhang, K Zhu, L Bo - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Research has shown that personality is associated with anxiety levels in the general
population. However, little is known about the relationship between personality and …

Pain and emotion: effects of affective picture modulation

MW Meagher, RC Arnau, JL Rhudy - Psychosomatic medicine, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Results Viewing fear and disgust slides decreased pain intensity and unpleasantness
thresholds, but only the fear slides decreased pain tolerance. In contrast, viewing erotic, but …