Title: Causes Influencing to fear and anxiety of medical/dental students, studying in medical/dental College, administering their first local anesthetic injection before, during and after the minor surgical procedure
Authors: Dr Santosh Mishra, Dr Madhuri Shukla, Dr Varun Arya, Dr Shailendra Sharma
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i1.113
Abstract
Operator’s anxiety can adversely affect the efficiency and outcome of the procedure performed. This is maximum seen during the first procedure performed by the students in their clinical postings. It is essential to identify and accordingly tackle the factors contributing to this fear and anxiety before, during and after the procedure. In this study, we designed a two page, 15 point questionnaire and asked 200 participants (100 from third year and 100 from final year) to fill out the form from a range of 1 – 5, with 1 being strongly disagree and 5 being strongly agree. The data collected was then analyzed and it was concluded that patient apprehensiveness was the biggest fear in the mind of the operator (58% strongly agreed) , maximum students felt perspiration at the time of procedure (51% strongly agreed ) and that theory and demonstrations helped ease this fear the most (63.5% strongly agreed)
Aim: The aim of this study was to identify and evaluate the factors contributing to fear and anxiety of undergraduate MBBS/ BDS students in their third and final year at the time of delivering their first Local Anesthetic injection.
Method: A total of 200 students participated in this study, 100 third year and 100 final year students. A two page questionnaire was developed with a 15 point evaluation criteria and a scoring range of 1 – 5, with 1 being strongly disagree and 5 being strongly agree. The score was then calculated with minimum being 15 and maximum of 75. The data was compiled and analyzed.
Results: It was statistically shown that patient apprehensiveness was the biggest fear in the mind of the students ( 58% strongly agreed) , maximum students felt perspiration at the time of procedure ( 51% strongly agreed ) and that theory and demonstrations helped ease this fear the most (63.5% strongly agreed)
Conclusion: Students’ anxiety and fear can be mainly attributed to patient apprehensiveness and chances of patient going into syncope, with maximum feeling perspiration at the time of procedure. It was concluded that presence of theory and demonstrations greatly eased this fear.
Keywords: Operator fear, Anxiety, Medical/Dental Students.
