The role of anxiety and depression in the incidence of Oral Lichen Planus in pateint that referring to the Section of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry Tabriz

Abstract

Introduction: Oral lichen planus is an immune cell mediated mucosal inflammatory disease. According to the tendency to malignancy and the importance of appropriate diagnosis and treatment of this disease, this research was designed and conducted to study the role of anxiety and depression in the incidence of oral lichen planus in the patients referred to Tabriz Dentistry Faculty.

Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 26 patients with oral lichen planus and 26 healthy individuals were selected by simple random sampling. Each participant received a Beck Anxiety and Depression Inventory and a Stressful Life Events Questionnaire. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test for independent groups and chi-square test and SPSS 17 software. P value less than 0.05 was considered significant.

Results: The mean of anxiety in patients with Lichen planus and control group was 60.26 ±3.51 and 56.5± 4.21 respectively (P = 0.001). In lichen planus group, 7.7%, 19.2% and 69.2% of the patients and in control group, 11.5%, 11.5% and 73.1% of the patients had mild, moderate and severe depression respectively. However, this difference was not statistically significant (P = 867).

Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the patients with oral lichen planus had higher levels of anxiety than healthy individuals but they were similar in degree of depression.