To describe and understand the self-medication behaviours of a population of adults coming to the Clermont-Ferrand dentistry department for acute pain of pulpal origin and of a population of adults coming to the specific care unit of the Clermont-Ferrand dentistry department or the Riom hospital for treatment under general anaesthesia.
Self-medication behaviour will be studied by means of a questionnaire. Questionnaires on insecurity, anxiety about dental care, items related to the ingestion function of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), a visual analogue pain assessment scale and the PCS-CF pain dramatisation scale will also be used.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
940
questionnaires of precarity, dental anxiety, self medication, pain
CHU de Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand, France
description of the self-medication behaviours
evaluated by patient interrogation
Time frame: day 0
level of anxiety
: evaluated with IDAF 4C (anxiety module between 8-40, phobia module between 5-10 and anxious situations between 10 and 50), the higher the score, the more anxious the patient is
Time frame: day 0
level of insecurity
evaluated by questionnaire (EPICES (the patient is in situation of insecurity if the score is higher than 30))
Time frame: day 0
description of the oral health with the related to the ingestion function of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
each item is evaluated with a Lickert scale
Time frame: day 0
visual analogue pain assessment scale and the PCS-CF pain dramatisation scale
PCS-CF scale is evaluated between 0 and 52, the higher the score, the more patient is over reacting faced with pain
Time frame: Day 0
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