Depression assessed over 1-year survival in patients with myocardial infarction.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of ICD-10 depression using a self-reported questionnaire and to examine if depression is associated with increased 1-year mortality in patients with myocardial infarction (MI).

Method: In total, 763 MI-patients completed the Major Depression Inventory at discharge. Information from hospital notes was collected and patients were followed 1 year for re-admission and mortality through national registries.

Postmyocardial infarction mortality in relation to depression: a systematic critical review.

The aim of this review was to survey the literature on depression in patients with myocardial infarction to assess the methodological quality and to test whether depression leads to an increased postmyocardial infarction mortality. Medline, Psycinfo, and www.UMI.

Psychosocial predictors of depression in patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Objective: To describe the prevalence of depression according to ICD-10 criteria using a self-completed questionnaire and to identify psychosocial predictors of depression at discharge in patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Method: A total of 899 patients with acute coronary syndrome completed the Major Depression Inventory at discharge and a questionnaire regarding previous depression and family history of depression. Information concerning civil status was obtained from the Civil Person Registry.

Psychosocial distress during pregnancy and the risk of infantile colic: a follow-up study.

Aim: To examine the association between psychosocial exposures during pregnancy and the risk of infantile colic.

Methods: The study included 378 infants and was conducted as a substudy of the Danish National Birth Cohort from 1997 to 1999, with prenatal data collected twice during pregnancy. A diary with a record for postpartum weeks 4-8 was used to quantify the amount of the infants' crying and fussing.

[Infantile colic--an assessment of possible risk factors].

Infantile colic is defined as crying or fussing for more than three hours a day for more than three days a week. The aetiology is unknown, although many hypotheses have been examined: allergy, type of feeding, the development of the gastrointestinal tract, the development of the central nervous system, and the mother/infant relationship. The frequency varies between 8% and 40% in industrialised countries.

[Psychology in the curriculum of Royal Dental College, Copenhagen].

In the curriculum of the Royal Dental College, Copenhagen, psychology has been offered as a separate discipline since 1986. In total there are 38 lectures and 31 seminars each of 2 hours. The teaching is divided into 6 main subjects: theory og education (learning, remembering and thinking), motivation and emotion, personality and the individual, biological and developmental processes, social behavior and conflict, adjustment and mental health.

[Behavior therapy for patients with dental fear].

Many dentists, in the course of their daily work with their patients, engage in a more or less explicit psychologic treatment of their patients where these evidence symptoms of odontophobia. In the case of many patients, the personal characteristics and individual psychologic skills of the dentist can be sufficient to the occasion, but for patients who suffer from serious phobic reactions to the dental situation, both good psychologic insight and experience are required in order that a psychologic treatment may be embarked upon with the prospect of a successful outcome. This article describes the various treatment techniques relevant to odontophobia which have their theoretical basis in the modern forms of behavior therapy.

[Psychologic considerations in the recording of dental anxiety].

The recording procedure is an especially important aspect of the psychologic treatment, since it contributes to the establishment of confidence between the dentist and his patient, and as such is an essential prerequisite to a successful treatment. The article argues that the registration should concern itself with situations and stimuli which have a traumatic character and with the associated learning processes. Furthermore recording of changes in behavior, somatic aspects of anxiety and of the emotional and cognitive aspects of anxiety should be involved.

[Psychology of phobias in relation to dental anxiety].

In this article the most important etiologic factors related to dental anxiety are presented and form the basis for the exposition of a model for the psychologic development of dental anxiety. The model shows that personality factors related to emotion and cognition can influence the development of dental anxiety. In order for the anxiety to develop and become manifest it is also necessary that: 1: the individual experiences a given stimulus as presenting a physical threat, e.

Dental health behaviors and periodontal disease indicators in Danish youths. A 10-year epidemiological follow-up.

The purpose of the present study was to analyse the epidemiologic relationship between dental health behaviors and periodontal disease. Indicators of periodontal disease in terms of bleeding and calculus were measured dichotomously (absence/presence). Periodontal pockets were as follows: normal pockets (0-3 mm), shallow pockets (4-5 mm), and deep pockets (6+ mm).

[Pediatric dentistry and dental fear].

The development of dental anxiety is often related to dental experiences in the childhood. A. study (3) from Copenhagen shows that among 20-21-year-old Danes, 37% had a negative assessment of child dental care and 14% had phobic reactions to dental care.

Influence of age and immunization on development of gingivitis in rats.

To study the effect of age and antigenic priming on the development of gingivitis, 33 healthy rats were placed in contact with Streptococcus mutans, Actinomyces viscosus, Fusobacterium nucleatum, and Bacteroides gingivalis. On days 0, 3, 7, and 14 after inoculation, the gingival condition was judged clinically and histologically, and serum antibody titers against the bacteria were measured. The rats were divided into three groups: 1 month old, 3 months old, and 3 months old immunized.

Use of dental services among Danish youths: role of the social environment, the individual, and the delivery system.

The purpose of the present study was to analyze the separate effect and the total effect of the social environment, the individual and the delivery system on frequency of use of dental services among youths. The variables of use were divided into the three main groups according to Coleman (12). Information concerning use of dental services, individual and structural variables was obtained by a self-administered questionnaire to 756 Danes 20-21 yr old in 1984-85.

Dental health status and attitudes to dental care in families participating in a Danish fluoride tablet program.

The caries experience and dental fluorosis of 84 Danish children, who had used fluoride tablets for 1-4 yr in the period 1976-80, were compared with those of a group matching in sex, age, place of living, and socioeconomic status. The average age of the children at the time of examination was 5.8 yr.

Epidemiologic indices for pulp treatment and extraction of primary molars.

The purpose of the present study is to introduce and discuss four indices to be used in epidemiologic recording of pulp treatment and extraction of primary molars. The indices are constructed on the basis of the four combinations existing between pulp treatment/no pulp treatment and extraction/no extraction. The NPE-index (No Pulp treatment or Extraction) reflects the relative number of teeth which are neither extracted nor pulp treated.