Dental Fear: One Single Clinical Question for Measurement

A new dental fear measurement instrument, the Short Dental Fear Question (SDFQ), was developed and tested for clinical practice purposes. The correlations of the SDFQ with the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) and the Dental Fear Survey (DFS) were tested in 15-16-year-old adolescents. The Spearman correlat...

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Autores principales: Jaakkola, S, Rautava, P, Alanen, P, Aromaa, M, Pienihäkkinen, K, Räihä, H, Vahlberg, T, Mattila, M.-L, Sillanpää, M
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Publicado: Bentham Open 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2724646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19672334
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874210600903010161
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author Jaakkola, S
Rautava, P
Alanen, P
Aromaa, M
Pienihäkkinen, K
Räihä, H
Vahlberg, T
Mattila, M.-L
Sillanpää, M
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Rautava, P
Alanen, P
Aromaa, M
Pienihäkkinen, K
Räihä, H
Vahlberg, T
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description A new dental fear measurement instrument, the Short Dental Fear Question (SDFQ), was developed and tested for clinical practice purposes. The correlations of the SDFQ with the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) and the Dental Fear Survey (DFS) were tested in 15-16-year-old adolescents. The Spearman correlations (rs) between the dental fear measurement instruments were: SDFQ – DFS: r(s) = 0.79, n = 26; DFS – DAS: r(s) = 0.72, n = 26; SDFQ– DAS: r(s) = 0.69, n = 27. DAS and DFS mean scores were clearly higher in the SDFQ fear group than SDFQ in the relaxed group. The SDFQ is a short and compact instrument which might be convenient for the measurement of dental fear in clinical practice.
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spelling pubmed-27246462009-08-11 Dental Fear: One Single Clinical Question for Measurement Jaakkola, S Rautava, P Alanen, P Aromaa, M Pienihäkkinen, K Räihä, H Vahlberg, T Mattila, M.-L Sillanpää, M Open Dent J Article A new dental fear measurement instrument, the Short Dental Fear Question (SDFQ), was developed and tested for clinical practice purposes. The correlations of the SDFQ with the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) and the Dental Fear Survey (DFS) were tested in 15-16-year-old adolescents. The Spearman correlations (rs) between the dental fear measurement instruments were: SDFQ – DFS: r(s) = 0.79, n = 26; DFS – DAS: r(s) = 0.72, n = 26; SDFQ– DAS: r(s) = 0.69, n = 27. DAS and DFS mean scores were clearly higher in the SDFQ fear group than SDFQ in the relaxed group. The SDFQ is a short and compact instrument which might be convenient for the measurement of dental fear in clinical practice. Bentham Open 2009-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2724646/ /pubmed/19672334 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874210600903010161 Text en © Jaakkola et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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