The literature on anxiety in Black, Indigenous, and other persons of color youth is a developing area. This article highlights distinct areas for the clinician to consider in working with these populations. We highlight prevalence and incidence, race-related stress, social media, substance use, spirituality, the impact of social determinants of health (including COVID-19 and the Syndemic), as well as treatment considerations. Our aim is to contribute to the readers' developing cultural humility.
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J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent
October 2024
Department of Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry, ACPM Dental College, Dhule, Maharashtra, India.
Background: Audio-analgesia is one of the unexplored aspects of behavior management in pediatric dentistry, and recently, there have been many new inclusions in shades of noise that were previously just limited to white noise, like brown noise and pink noise.
Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of white noise, brown noise, and pink noise on dental anxiety in pediatric patients undergoing primary tooth extraction.
Study Settings And Design: Multiarm, triple-blinded, parallel-group randomized controlled trial.
Arch Gynecol Obstet
November 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Purpose: Women with symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse are facing the choice between several treatment options and a potentially difficult decision. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of decisional conflict, patient characteristics and other decision-related factors on treatment decision in women with pelvic organ prolapse.
Methods: Data from the SHADE-POP trial were used.
Dent J (Basel)
May 2024
Faculty of Dental Medicine, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Târgu Mures, 540139 Târgu Mures, Romania.
Background: Severe early childhood caries (S-ECC) is recognized as a significant chronic disease which affects the quality of life starting at very young ages and has a very rapid evolution towards pulp complication and loss of dental tissue. Children with a high caries index DMFT are more likely to develop high levels of dental anxiety, which will influence the degree of cooperation during dental procedures. Emotions play an important role in the psychosomatic development of children, and all the factors that contribute to the modeling of these emotional states must be known and taken into consideration.
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March 2024
Department of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
Background: Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is the most prevalent cancer in the United States. Despite guidelines on ultraviolet (UV) avoidance, it remains difficult for people to assess their exposure, as UV is invisible and the onset of UV-induced symptoms is delayed.
Methods: In a prospective randomized trial, 97 elderly patients with a history of actinic keratoses (AK) were followed over 6 months.
Three digital drawings invite interpretations of a cornered figure's orientations to space, color, and its own boundaries and self. Little variation among lines and spaces, their colors and shades, and the figure's position suggest the representational importance of each to discerning meaning about how we forge connection.
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