Abstract
The purpose of this research was to clarify the psychosomatic factors of patients with Stomatognathic dysfunction using a questionaire “STAI”(State-Trait Anxiety Inventory)-Form X.
Total 649 patients, visiting our hospital, were selected as subjects and divided into three subgroups, as follows;
1) Symptom-free group: patients without any history of Stomatognathic dysfunction
2) Symptom in the past group: patients reducing symptom of Stomatognathic dysfunction
3) Treatment group: patients in the process of treatment for Stomatognathic dysfunction
The results were as follows;
1) On the State Anxiety Scale, the treatment group was higher in score than Symptom in the past group.
2) On the Trait Anxiety Scale, the symptoms in the past group was higher in score than the Symptom-free group.
3) A score of the State Anxiety Scale was not as stable as of the Trait Anxiety Scale. Especially, a score of the State Anxiety Scale was changeable in symptom in the past group.
It was suggested that STAI was effective in grasping for not only specific characteristics of anxiety but also psychosomatic stressful conditions.
