Egbe Emmanuel Idehen

Obafemi Awolowo University | OAU · Department of Psychology

The main purpose of this study was to estimate the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the victims of the March 2000 Ile-Ife/Modakek exposure, age and gender) that predispose the victims to PTSD. An initial sample of 456 male and female respondents from both communities field in a simple questionnaire that assessed and self-repo...

Objectives: This study tries to assess the effectiveness of the DFSS-SF in measuring treatment outcome in children managed using psychological techniques. Methods: Seventy four children aged 8-13 years who were attending the dental clinic for the first time were recruited into the study. The Short Form of the Dental Subscale of the Child Fear Surve...

To investigate the effects and interrelationship between dental anxiety and dentist's experience, dentist's behaviour, type of treatment received and the behaviour of Nigerian children during treatment. Pre- and post-dental treatment anxiety levels of 69 child patients, who were attending the dental clinic to receive dental treatment for the first...

To establish the effect of information received about dental care on the anxiety level of the child prior to receiving any form of dental treatment and on their behaviour during dental treatment. Eighty-four healthy child patients at their first dental visit, between the ages of 8 and 13 years attending a paediatric dental clinic in Nigeria partici...

The experience of anxiety is a universal human phenomenon. Studies have shown a world-wide variation in the prevalence of dental anxiety with estimates ranging between 3% and 43%. The aetiology of dental anxiety is multifactorial, with factors acting in synergy to affect its expression. For children, age and gender play fundamental roles in its exp...

This was to investigate the ability of Nigerian parents to predict their child's dental anxiety level and the relationship between the child's dental anxiety, general anxiety and behaviour in the dental chair. A group of 53 mothers and 35 fathers and their respective children completed schedules that measured general and dental anxiety. The child's...

Dental anxiety develops from a vicious cycle of bodily arousal from dental stimuli, cognitive interpretation and ineffective coping all working in a runaway feedback loop. Behavioral management strategies (BMT) aim at cognitive reorientation, which results in better compliance with instruction. This paper therefore tried to find out possible factor...

Aim To establish the effect of information received about dental care on the anxiety level of the child prior to receiving any form of dental treatment and on their behaviour during dental treatment. Methods Eightyfour healthy child patients at their first dental visit, between the ages of 8 and 13 years attending a paediatric dental clinic in Nige...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of using of psychological management techniques on the level of anxiety in Nigerian children during dental management. The Short Form of the Dental Anxiety Survey Schedule was administered to 81 children who were attending a suburban dental clinic for the first time. This schedule was re-administere...

This paper attempts to determine the sociodemographic factors that relate to dental anxiety in suburban African children. A short form of the Dental subscale of the Child Fear Survey schedule (DFSS_SF) was administered to 81 patients (first time attendees at the clinic) between the ages of eight and 13 years. The psychometric scale was used after d...

The study explored the relationship between ego-migration task and ego-maturation crisis during adolescence as postulated by Ausubel (1977) and Kirk (1977). The participants employed for the purpose of the study include 50 male and 50 female adolescents randomly picked from four secondary schools in Ondo State, Nigeria. Their ages ranged from 16 to...

Dental anxiety has long been identified as a factor that affects the effective provision and acceptance of dental treatments by patients. For children, this becomes a handicap especially when they have not developed an ability to cope with the problem. This paper reviews factors that have been identified as aetiological factors for dental anxiety i...

The need for a simple applied quantitative assessment of religiosity is discussed. It is noted that religion has become a potent variable in the understanding the psychology of the Nigerian. Thus, a measure of religiosity would be of considerable value. An inventory of 6 items- the religious Orientation test ROT- is proposed. The results indicate t...