The Psychometric analysis in dental fear patients
WU Cheng-fang
FANG Jiang-hong
WANG Xu
GUO De-hui
ZHANG Wen-ting
MU Ling-dan
WU Ya-nan
MENG Xiu-hua
Abstract：Objectives: To investigate depression and anxiety state, faith and ability of self-confident in dental fear patients. Methods: All patients in this investigation ,total 329, were asked to fill out self-rating depression scale (SDS), self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), faith in people scale (FPA) and state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI), and got the result. The participants who responded to dental fear scale were screened as dental fear patients.The data were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance stratified by age between normal and dental fear patients. Results:Statistically significant differences were found between patients with and without dental fear using SDS scale. Significant sex differences based on the DAS score indicated female patients suffered from more severe anxiety than male counterparts did. For patients 18~30 and 46~60 years old, significant difference were found between patients with or without dental fear based on SDS scores. There were statistical significance of state anxiety in patients of 18~30 years old. Conclusion:Dental fear patients have abnormal psychology.
Keywords：dental feardepressionanxietypersonal evaluationscale
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 172-176 )