title: Personality factors versus expectations and self-reported symptoms among patients awaiting advanced prosthodontic treatment.
abstract: To assess simple questions for identifying patient personality traits among a normal Swedish population and to assess possible relationships between personality and symptoms, attitudes, dental problems, and received dental care, a questionnaire was sent to 489 subjects awaiting prosthodontic treatment (response rate 84.2%). Three personality traits could be identified: "Fearful-depressed" subjects consumed more tranquillisers, were worried and had many symptoms, whilst "Open-minded" were optimistic about treatment, had high expectations and few symptoms. "Control-minded" did not reveal worries and guarded their autonomy. It was concluded that personality indicators were related to clinically relevant factors: salience of teeth, perceptions of problems, dental attendance pattern, expectations and perceptions of symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Tandvårdshögskolan, Malmö, Sweden.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hakestam
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Söderfeldt
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Rydén
authors.forename: P O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Glantz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010551:Personality; D011476:Prosthodontics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012647:Self-Assessment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden