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The relationship of dental caries and dental fear in Malaysian adolescents: a latent variable approach
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dc.contributor.author | Esa, Rashidah | |
dc.contributor.author | Leng Ong, Ali | |
dc.contributor.author | Humphris, Gerald Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Freeman, Ruth | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-29T10:01:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-04-29T10:01:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-03-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Esa , R , Leng Ong , A , Humphris , G M & Freeman , R 2014 , ' The relationship of dental caries and dental fear in Malaysian adolescents: a latent variable approach ' , BMC Oral Health , vol. 14 , 19 . https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-14-19 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1472-6831 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 103057267 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: e28200e1-08cd-4263-af02-8073dc9bd84d | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84899079425 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000335180400001 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-4601-8834/work/64033912 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/4652 | |
dc.description | This paper is funded by University Malaya. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Background To investigate the role of geography (place of residence) as a moderator in the relationship between dental caries disease and treatment experience and dental fear in 16-year-olds living in Malaysia. Methods A multi-stage-stratified sampling method was employed. Five hundred and three, 16-year-olds from 6 government secondary schools participated in this study. The questionnaire examined participants' demographic profile and assessed their dental fear using the Dental Fear Survey (DFS). The clinical examination consisted of the DMFT as the outcome measure of dental caries disease and treatment experience by a single examiner (ICC = 0.98). Structural equation modelling inspected the relationship between dental fear and dental caries disease and treatment experience. Results The mean DMFT was 2.76 (SD 3.25). The DT, MT and FT components were 0.64 (SD 1.25), 0.14 (SD 0.56) and 1.98 (SD 2.43) respectively. Rural compared with urban adolescents had significantly greater mean numbers of decayed and missing teeth. The mean DFS score was 40.8 (SD 12.4). Rural compared with urban adolescents had significantly higher mean scores for physical symptoms of dental fear. The correlation between dental fear (DFS) and dental caries disease and treatment experience (DMFT) was 0.29, p < 0.0001. The structural equation model fitted the raw data well (chi2 = 9.20, df = 8, p = 0.34). All components of DMFT were closely associated in equal strength to the unidimensional hypothetical latent variable of dental caries disease and treatment experience. The strength of the relationship between dental fear and dental caries disease and treatment experience varied in accordance with place of residence. Conclusion In conclusion a relationship between dental fear and dental caries disease and treatment experience was shown to exist in 16-year-old adolescents living in Malaysia. This study showed that the rural-urban dichotomy acted as a moderator upon this relationship. | |
dc.format.extent | 7 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | BMC Oral Health | en |
dc.rights | © 2014 Esa 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 credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en |
dc.subject | RK Dentistry | en |
dc.subject.lcc | RK | en |
dc.title | The relationship of dental caries and dental fear in Malaysian adolescents: a latent variable approach | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Medicine | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. St Andrews Sustainability Institute | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Health Psychology | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-14-19 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6831/14/19 | en |
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