PMID- 20372669
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100607
LR  - 20210227
IS  - 1602-1622 (Print)
IS  - 1602-1622 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 1
DP  - 2010
TI  - Dental anxiety and its relationship with self-perceived health locus of control 
      among Indian dental students.
PG  - 9-14
AB  - PURPOSE: The objective of the present study was to assess dental anxiety and 
      study its relationship with the perceived Health Locus of Control (HLC) among 
      students in an Indian dental school. METHODS: A total of 325 students returned 
      completed history forms that consisted of the Multidimensional Health Locus of 
      Control (MHLC) scale and the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS). RESULTS: 'Fear 
      of the needle' was the greatest stimulus of dental anxiety with a mean score of 
      3.3, which was followed by 'tooth drilling' whose mean score was 2.7. There was 
      also a statistically significant decrease in the mean scores for all of the MDAS 
      items from 1st year to 4th year, except the item related to local anaesthetic 
      injection, whose mean score remained high throughout. The mean scores of the 
      three aspects of the MHLC scale (internal, chance and powerful others) were 
      compared with respect to dental anxiety. The results showed that 'internal' was 
      the most powerful of the three aspects of MHLC among all three anxiety groups. 
      The mean 'internal' score for the low anxiety group was 4.4, which reduced to 4.1 
      for the high anxiety group. A statistically significant inverse correlation was 
      also found between the 'internal' dimension of MHLC and dental anxiety. 
      CONCLUSION: Perceived HLC was found to play an important role in predicting the 
      dental anxiety among dental students.
FAU - Acharya, Shashidhar
AU  - Acharya S
AD  - Department of Community Dentistry, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal 
      University, Manipal 576104, India. shashidhar_acharya@yahoo.com
FAU - Sangam, Dattatreya Krishnarao
AU  - Sangam DK
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Germany
TA  - Oral Health Prev Dent
JT  - Oral health & preventive dentistry
JID - 101167768
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Dental Anxiety/*psychology
MH  - Dental High-Speed Technique/psychology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - India
MH  - Injections/psychology
MH  - *Internal-External Control
MH  - Male
MH  - Manifest Anxiety Scale
MH  - Self-Assessment
MH  - Statistics, Nonparametric
MH  - Students, Dental/psychology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2010/04/08 06:00
MHDA- 2010/06/09 06:00
CRDT- 2010/04/08 06:00
PHST- 2010/04/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/04/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/06/09 06:00 [medline]
AID - 841664 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Oral Health Prev Dent. 2010;8(1):9-14.