Porritt, J., Buchanan, H., Hall, M. et al. (2 more authors) (2012) Assessing children's dental anxiety: A systematic review of current measures. Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology, 41 (2). 130 - 142. ISSN 0301-5661
Abstract
The reliable assessment of children's dental anxiety can have many benefits for the dental team, service providers and dental public health practitioners. This study aimed to identify and evaluate self-report measures, which are available to assess children's dental anxiety. Systematic searches of the literature between 1998 and 2011 were conducted to identify relevant studies. The properties of each measure (reliability and validity) were assessed, and measures were evaluated against a theoretical framework of dental anxiety. Executing the search strategy generated 498 articles and of these 60 studies met all of the inclusion criteria. Seven 'trait' and two 'state' measures of dental anxiety had been employed to assess children's dental anxiety over the past decade. Reliability and validity estimates for the most widely used measures were good; however, many questionnaires had a limited focus in the aspects of anxiety they assessed. The paper summarizes the measures of children's dental anxiety which may be most useful for a number of different purposes and populations. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons A/S.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2012 John Wiley & Sons. This is an author-produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy |
Keywords: | anxiety; pediatric dentistry |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Clinical Dentistry (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2015 09:41 |
Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2015 10:09 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0528.2012.00740.x |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2012.00740.x |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:84602 |