Analysis of anxiety variables in dental students.

Unlabelled: Personality, stress factors, gender and personal circumstances have been studied in dental students and a change in anxiety levels has been discovered over the different academic years that make up the degree course.

Objectives: To analyse the variation in anxiety over the different years and to determine any variation between the genders, in dental students at the Madrid Complutense University.

Method: Eight scales of the Inventory of Anxiety Situations and Responses were administered to 110 students, of both genders, from the 1st, 3rd and 5th years.