PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPLICATIONS OF RECEPTION AND TREATMENT OF DENTAL PATIENTS DURING SARS-Cov-2 PANDEMIC PERIOD

Abstract

During the period since beginning of the introduction of the high alert regime due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection, a study was carried out of the psychological aspects of the changes in the subjective attitude of patients to the need to visit a dentist against the background of increased epidemiological risks. In the course of the study, the collected experimental material was systematized and subjected to primary empirical generalization, based on the results of which a number of key factors were then identified that play the role of the most powerful stressors for the individual perception and consciousness of the average dental patient. Subsequently, the analysis of the objective aspects and subjectively perceived characteristics of the influence of the most powerful stressors, as well as the psychological structure that they acquired in the emotional-affective and cognitive spheres of the psyche of the interviewed patients, was carried out. Particular attention was paid to the analysis of intrapsychic contradictions and conflicts arising from the emerging imbalances between the patient's initial motivation, initiated by his personal needs to visit the dentist, and his own emotional experiences regarding the assessment of the estimated epidemiological risks. In particular, the most detailed study was made of the phenomenology of the asymptomatic type of disease course caused by infection in relation to the emerging characteristics of the perception by the individual consciousness of the phenomenon of "asymptomatic" as an invisible and terrible danger. In this regard, an extremely high level of anxiety of patients about the forced nature of the future violation of social distance by them when visiting a doctor was noted, and real risk factors for the individual psyche in situations of its acute decompensation due to the lack of opportunities to overcome stress were indicated. In conclusion, a number of clinical recommendations are given on possible ways to relieve stress from experiences of this kind, including the most modern and effective methods.