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Fear of COVID-19 in Madrid. Will patients avoid dental care? by María José González-Olmo; Bendición Delgado-Ramos; Ana Raquel Ortega-Martínez; Martín Romero-Maroto; María Carrillo-Díaz is a Dentistry article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Introduction: The objective of this research is to describe how perceived infectability, germ aversion, and fear of COVID-19 in adults in Madrid have changed from the beginning of the pandemic until the lockdown exit phase and their influence on dental care behaviour. Materials and Methods: Some 961 participants were monitored in a study in Madrid at 2 time points: before lockdown (T0) and after completion of the total lockdown (T1). A questionnaire that included basic sociodemographic variables, the perceived vulnerability to disease scale (including perceived infectability and germ aversion), the fear of COVID-19 scale, and dental visiting behaviour after confinement for fear of COVID was administered. Results: The participants had higher scores for infectability and germ aversion at T1 than at T0 (P < 0.01). Of those studied, 24.5% (235) of the participants would not go to the dentist for fear of COVID-19. Those who had a high perceived infectability scale score were at least 5 times more likely to not visit the dentist. Those with high COVID-19 fear were at least 6 times more likely to not visit the dentist, and those older than 60 years were 8 times more likely to not visit
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- Author
- María José González-Olmo; Bendición Delgado-Ramos; Ana Raquel Ortega-Martínez; Martín Romero-Maroto; María Carrillo-Díaz
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Dentistry (Health Sciences)