Correlation between anxiety and depression in patients with temporomandibular disorder

Abstract

Objective: to evaluate the correlation between anxiety and depression in the presence of Temporomandibular Dysfunction. Material and Methods: sixty patients attended at the TMJ Service of the Dental School of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, located in the city of Juiz de Fora/Minas Gerais, Brazil, participated in the study. Of these sixty, thirty had diagnoses of temporomandibular disorder from the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorder, and thirty did not have a diagnosis of dysfunction. All participants answered the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale questionnaires and the Beck Anxiety Inventory. The data obtained were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Science 14.0 program with the Chi-square test and a significance level of 5% (p<0.05). Results: there was a significant correlation between the parameters gender (p=0.024), mean age (p=0.033), presence of temporomandibular disorder (p=0.034) and the anxiety variable. As for the variable depression, there was a significant correlation for the diagnosis of temporomandibular disorder (p=0.029), and a non-significant correlation for gender (p=0.608) and mean age (p=0.175). Conclusion: there is a relationship between psychological and psychosocial factors, such as anxiety and depression with temporomandibular disorders