The Effect Of Psychological Intervention On Compliance And Dental Anxiety Of Young Orthodontic Patients Whose Personality Traits Are Different

Take Eysenek Personality Questionaire (EPQ), Dental anxiety scale(DAS)and Compliance scale (CS) to study the effect of Psychological intervention on Compliance and Dental anxiety of young Orthodontic Patients who have different Personality Traits.Methods:A sample of young patients aged12to16who wear arches the first time in2011.4-2012.8was selected in Department of Orthodontics, the Afiliated Stomatolegical Hospital of Luzhou Medical College.Distribute the EPQ,SAS and CS to the patients when they see a doctor in Othodontics the first time and hand in on the next appointment.Take back the scales and distinguish the patients by the EPQ into four types of personality:Extraversion stable personality,Introverted stable personality,Extraversion unstable personality and Introverted unstable personality.Take Psychological intervention on the patients before they wear braces the first time,one week after they wear the braces and when they return visit the first and the second month. Assessment their compliance after three months then grouping and take Psychological intervention on half patients. Distribute the DAS to all patients again and assement their compliance.Comparing the changes of patients’anxiety and compliance the last two times and study the effect of Psychological intervention on the different types of personalityResults:1. Dental anxiety existed in all types of personality,but performanced more obviously in Introverted unstable personality than in Extraversion stable personality (P>0.05).2.Most of the teenagers had the poor compliance and people with Extraversion unstable personality had the worst compliance then were the people with Extraversion stable personality,the people with Extraversion stable personality,the people whose personality are Introverted unstable and the people who have Introverted stable personality. These differences were statistically significant(p<0.05).3.After Psychological intervention,the Dental anxiety of the people with Introverted stable personality declined most obviously,then were the people with Extraversion stable personality,the people with Extraversion unstable personality and the people whose personality are Introverted unstable These differences were statistically significant(p<0.05).4. After Psychological intervention,the compliance changed most obviously in the persons who has Extraversion stable personality,then were the people with Extraversion unstable personality,the people with Introverted stable personality and the people with Introverted,unstable personality. These differences were statistically significant(p<0.05).Conclution:1.Psychological intervention play an active role in easing Dental anxiety and improving compliance in people.2.Different personalities have different feedback after psychological intervention. Psychological intervention play the most obvious impact in easing Dental anxiety of the people with Introverted stable personality and improving compliance of the people with Extroverted stable personality.3. Psychological intervention played almost no difference impact on the people whose personality are Extraversion unstable and the people whose personality are Introverted stable.