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The aim of this study was to assess the attitudes of junior dental students at a United Kingdom dental school regarding the administration and receipt of a local anesthetic injection. The effect of teaching on these attitudes was also evaluated. Data were collected by questionnaire. Previous experience with local anesthesia in a dental office did not affect students' attitudes toward administration and receipt of a local anesthetic injection from a classmate. Female students were more anxious about giving and receiving local anesthetic injections than male students. Didactic teaching decreased anxiety in relation to administration and receipt of a local anesthetic injection. The results showed that male and female students in a United Kingdom dental school differed in their attitudes toward local anesthesia.
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Keywords: Local anesthesia; Dentistry; Sex differences
Copyright: © 2005 by the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology
Figure 1.
Comparison of mean visual analog scale (VAS) scores for students who had experienced an injection in a dental office (experienced) and those who had no experience of dental local anesthesia (inexperienced). From dentist indicates VAS score related to receipt of an injection from a dentist; from student, VAS score related to receipt of an injection from a classmate; and to student, VAS score related to administration of an injection to a classmate.
Figure 2.
Comparison of mean visual analog scale (VAS) scores for male and female students. From dentist indicates VAS score related to receipt of an injection from a dentist; from student, VAS score related to receipt of an injection from a classmate; and to student, VAS score related to administration of an injection to a classmate.
Figure 3.
Comparison of mean visual analog scale (VAS) scores for male and female students. From dentist indicates VAS score related to receipt of an injection from a dentist; from student (pre), VAS score related to receipt of an injection from a classmate before teaching course; and from student (post), VAS score related to receipt of an injection from a classmate after teaching.
Figure 4.
Comparison of mean visual analog scale (VAS) scores for male and female students. To student (pre) indicates VAS score related to administration of an injection to a classmate before teaching course; to student (post), VAS score related to administration of an injection to a classmate after teaching; and to patient, VAS score related to administration of an injection to a patient after the teaching course.
Contributor Notes
Address correspondence to Dr J. G. Meechan, School of Dental Sciences, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Framlington Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England NE2 4BW; J.G.Meechan@ncl.ac.uk.
Received: Jul 27, 2004
Accepted: Jan 26, 2005
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