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UK population norms for the modified dental anxiety scale with percentile calculator : adult dental health survey 2009 results

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24/06/2013
Author
Humphris, Gerald Michael
Crawford, John
Hill, Kirsty
Gilbert, Angela
Freeman, Ruth
Keywords
Dental anxiety
Representative survey
Psychometrics
Percentiles
On-line calculator
R Medicine
RK Dentistry
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Abstract
Background: A recent UK population survey of oral health included questions to assess dental anxiety to provide mean and prevalence estimates of this important psychological construct. Methods: A two-stage cluster sample was used for the survey across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The survey took place between October-December 2009, and January-April 2010. All interviewers were trained on survey procedures. Within the 7,233 households sampled there were 13,509 adults who were asked to participate in the survey and 11,382 participated (84%). Results: The scale was reliable and showed some evidence of unidimensionality. Estimated proportion of participants with high dental anxiety (cut-off score = 19) was 11.6%. Percentiles and confidence intervals were presented and can be estimated for individual patients across various age ranges and gender using an on-line tool. Conclusions: The largest reported data set on the MDAS from a representative UK sample was presented. The scale’s psychometrics is supportive for the routine assessment of patient dental anxiety to compare against a number of major demographic groups categorised by age and sex. Practitioners within the UK have a resource to estimate the rarity of a particular patient’s level of dental anxiety, with confidence intervals, when using the on-line percentile calculator.
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Humphris , G M , Crawford , J , Hill , K , Gilbert , A & Freeman , R 2013 , ' UK population norms for the modified dental anxiety scale with percentile calculator : adult dental health survey 2009 results ' , BMC Oral Health , vol. 13 , no. 29 . https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-13-29
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BMC Oral Health
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-13-29
ISSN
1472-6831
Type
Journal article
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© 2013 Humphris et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Humphris et al. BMC Oral Health 2013, 13:29 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6831/13/29
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http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6831/13/29
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3826

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