Mood and anxiety psychopathology and temporomandibular disorder: a spectrum approach

summary Psychological factors play an important role in the aetiopathogenesis of temporomandibular disorders (TMD), as demonstrated by an increase in stress, anxiety, depression and somatization in TMD patients. The aim of this work was to investigate the presence of mood and panic‐agoraphobic symptoms in different groups of TMD patients by means of a spectrum approach to psychopathology. A total of 131 subjects were included in this study and TMD signs and symptoms were investigated by means of a standardized clinical examination. Two self‐report questionnaires were used to evaluate mood (MOODS‐SR) and panic‐agoraphobic (PAS‐SR) spectrum. anova and Bonferroni's post hoc test for multiple comparisons were used to compare mean scores of all TMD groups for MOODS‐SR, PAS‐SR and all their domains. Results revealed a significantly higher prevalence of both mood (P