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PRELIMINARY VALIDATION AND RELIABILITY OF THE MODIFIED CHILD DENTAL ANXIETY SCALE
Abstract
An 8-question Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale was developed to assess children's concerns about specific dental procedures. These dental situations include examination, scale and polish, injection, filling, extraction, and relative and general anaesthesia. A question about how the child felt generally when visiting the dentist was also included. Children (n = 314) from two schools in Liverpool, ages 8 to 15 years, completed a questionnaire including the modified scale, Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale, the Dental Fear Survey Schedule for Children, and background questions (age, sex and previous dental experience). The internal consistency was favourable (alpha = .84) and test-retest reliability acceptable. This initial study suggests that the scale may be useful in trials to assess the benefits of interventions to assist children receive dental treatment.
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“53.5% of the children were ‘dentally anxious’ (scores above 18) [20].”
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“the mean Modified Child Dental Anxiety score (MCDAs) was 24 (range 12 to 40)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- WONG, H. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Venue
- Psychological Reports
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1998
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1179
- ISSN
- 0033-2941 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2038008592
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Reports (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Dentistry › Oral Surgery › Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Health Sciences › Dentistry › General Dentistry › Dental Health and Care Utilization
- Keywords
- Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale, dental anxiety, children, scale validation, reliability statistics, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale, dental treatment, dental anesthesia, questionnaire development
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Reproducibility of Results, Dental Anxiety
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