Abstract

ORDONEZ-PLAZA, Miriam Patricia  and  VILLAVICENCIO-CAPARO, Ébingen. Association among stress, depression and anxiety with diurnal bruxism prevalence.. Rev. Estomatol. Herediana [online]. 2016, vol.26, n.3, pp.147-150. ISSN 1019-4355.  http://dx.doi.org/10.20453/reh.v26i3.2958.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to relate the stress, anxiety and depression with the prevalence of awake probable bruxism in college students of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Cuenca. Materials and methods: of cases and controls design, 284 patients were evaluated in total was conducted a questionnaire of self-report more clinical examination to determine the awake “probable” bruxism was used and the DASS-21 scale was applied to measure stress, anxiety, and depression. Results: The data revealed a prevalence of 52.1% of awake probable bruxism and an association with stress variables (OR: 3.148, 95% CI 1.9 - 5.1), anxiety (OR: 3.222, 95% CI 1.9 - 5.4) and depression ( OR: 3.284; 95% CI - 1.400 95% CI: O 2.0 5.3) with this parafunction, while no less significant association between awake bruxism with the variables age over 21 and under 21 years (OR we not found 0.8 - 2.2) and sex (OR: 1.260 (95% CI 0.7 - 2.0). Conclusions: depression was the most important factor associated to awake bruxism, this disease is highly prevalent among college students of the faculty of dentistry at the University of Cuenca is 52.1%, there is a high frequency of patients with stress.

Keywords : Bruxism; associated factors, self-reported; etiology; awake bruxism.

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