The use of dental anxiety management techniques during one-session treatment: a study on five video-recorded patient cases.

Objective: The aim was to examine what kinds of dental anxiety management techniques dentists use in the context of one-session treatment.

Material And Methods: The data consisted of videotaped treatment sessions for five dentally anxious adults. The treatment was conducted by two experienced dentists without formal training in the treatment of dentally anxious patients or behavioral management techniques.

Fear, isolation and the importance of support: A qualitative study of parents' experiences of feeding a child born with esophageal atresia.

Objective: Feeding and swallowing difficulties in children are increasing due to improved survival rates of children with complex medical conditions. Despite being common complications of esophageal atresia (EA), EA related feeding difficulties have received little attention in research. Establishing positive feeding interactions and practices are important for child health and development, and for parental and child mental health.

The effectiveness of a diagnostic interview and modified one-session treatment for dental anxiety in primary dental care-A pilot study.

Aims: To investigate the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral intervention that included either a diagnostic interview (DI) or a DI combined with modified one-session treatment (M-OST) for dental anxiety among adults in a primary care setting.

Methods And Results: Nineteen participants were assigned to either a DI before conventional dental treatment (group T1) or DI and M-OST (group T2). The severity of dental anxiety was measured with three self-reported measures before and after the intervention: the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS), the Index of Dental Anxiety and Fear (IDAF-4C), and the Visual Analogue Scale-Anxiety (VAS-A).

Individualizing the burnout problem: Health professionals' discourses of burnout and recovery in the context of rehabilitation.

This discourse analytical study explores how health professionals (HPs) construct burnout as a form of mental distress in the context of Finnish burnout rehabilitation framed with a particular rehabilitation ethos. Burnout is a fuzzy concept and lacks a disease status. Therefore, it calls for context-specific definition and justification.

Burnout as an identity rupture in the life course: a longitudinal narrative method.

The methodological article explores the process by which identity rupture generated by work-related burnout is encountered and managed over time. The article presents an in-depth case study based on follow-up interviews with a woman in her sixties. The study attempts to discover what kinds of continuities and changes in meaning making patterns are included in the burnout process and how these meaning making patterns are used to perform and negotiate identity stabilities and changes in the life course.

Patients' multifaceted views of dental fear in a diagnostic interview.

Objectives: The aim was to examine how patients describe and perceive their dental fear (DF) in diagnostic interviews.

Material And Methods: The sample consisted of dentally anxious patients according to the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS), who had problems coping with conventional dental treatment. The voluntary participants ( = 7, aged 31-62 years) attended a diagnostic interview aiming to map their DF before dental treatment.

The moral orders of work and health: a case of sick leave due to burnout.

Being on sick leave due to burnout entails a high level of accountability. Persons suffering from burnout do not automatically play a legitimate sick role because of the fuzziness of the burnout concept. In addition, while being on sick leave, they are in a non-working position, which is against the ideals of work-centred society.