title: [The effects of psychological nursing on anxiety of patients in the procedure of impacted teeth extraction].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the effects of psychological nursing on anxiety of patients during extraction of impacted teeth.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy patients who required impacted tooth extraction were randomly divided into intervention group (n=35) and control group (n=35). In the intervention group, psychological nursing was performed by special nurses before, during and after the surgical procedure; In the control group, patients were informed the general knowledge of the routine treatment and care. Anxiety was evaluate with anxiety scale at the end of surgical procedure. The data was analyzed with SPSS 13.0 software package for X2 test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The number of patients with anxiety in the intervention group was significantly reduced compared with the control. The difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychological nursing assists to relieve anxiety of patients during impacted teeth removal.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Dentistry, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology. Shanghai 200011; China.E-mail:candytyq@126.com.
authors.forename: Yi-qun
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Peng-bo
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.forename: Dong-lin
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Qu
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety; D006801:Humans; D014081:Tooth Extraction; D014095:Tooth, Impacted