Turkish Version of Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale

Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Training and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior; Child, Only; Anxiety, Dental

Treatments: Other: Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale (MCDASf)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04762654

985

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: The faces version of the Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale (MCDASf) is less time consuming and an easy to understand tool for measuring dental anxiety. The aim of this study was to develop the Turkish version of MCDASf and to analyze its validity and reliability.

Full description

The internal consistency reliability was determined by calculating Cronbach's alpha (n=300). Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) were calculated for test-retest reliability (n=67). Construct validity was determined by comparing with the Venham Picture Test (VPT). The factor structure was examined using exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used for the dimensionality. The cut-off points of the Turkish version of MCDASf were plotted using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged between 6-12 years, intellectual sufficiency to complete the questionnaire, and voluntariness to take part in the study. Also, only children whose parents were willing to participate were included

Exclusion criteria

• Children who had mental or physical disorders, cooperation problems or dental pain were excluded from the study.