Psychometric properties of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey

– Objectives:  The objectives of this pair of studies were to examine the internal reliability, test–retest reliability, and construct validity of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey. Methods:  A total of 108 college students completed two questionnaires containing the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey, a...

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Published in:Community dentistry and oral epidemiology 2005-08, Vol.33 (4), p.289-297
Main Authors: Coolidge, Trilby, Heima, Masahiro, Coldwell, Susan E., Weinstein, Philip, Milgrom, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
College students
Communication
dental anxiety
Dental Anxiety - psychology
Dental Beliefs Survey
Dental care
dental fear
Dentist-Patient Relations
dentist-patient relationship
Dentistry
Female
Humans
Internal-External Control
Male
Middle Aged
Perceptions
Polls & surveys
Professional Role
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Statistics, Nonparametric
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:– Objectives:  The objectives of this pair of studies were to examine the internal reliability, test–retest reliability, and construct validity of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey. Methods:  A total of 108 college students completed two questionnaires containing the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey, as well as the Revised Iowa Dental Control Index, and Desirability of Control scales. As part of another experiment, 141 study participants with dental injection phobia completed the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey and the Dental Anxiety Scale. Results:  Both the internal and test–retest reliabilities of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey were high. The measure demonstrated good convergent and discriminant validities. Conclusion:  The Revised Dental Beliefs Survey is well‐suited for use with clinical and nonclinical populations, in which a stable and valid measure of perceptions of the dental situation is desired.
ISSN:0301-5661
1600-0528
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.2005.00214.x