Ahmad Afsheen, Ayub Kazi Mohammad Shoaib, Ahmad Iftikhar
Children Hospital, Lahore.
Jinnah Hospital Lahore.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2017 Oct;67(10):1532-1535.
To determine efficacy of the Urdu version of Dental Subscale of Children's Fear Survey Schedule on children for identifying children with dental anxiety.
This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Children's Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, in November 2015, and comprised child patients who were selected using convenient sampling. Dental Subscale of Children's Fear Survey Schedule was translated into Urdu using forward-backward translation method and administered to subjects aged 4-14 years to evaluate its psychometric properties and set a cut-off score for identifying fearful children. Factor analysis technique evaluated the translated items and analysis of variance explored age-anxiety linkage.
Of the 204 participants, 89(43.6%) were girls and 115(56.4%) were boys. The survey yielded a normal distribution on anxiety scale, with a mean score of 32.13±12.06 and high reliability (a=0.934). Factor analysis indicated 3 factor pattern similar to Western findings. Items about ' choking, drilling sound and open-your-mouth' were mostly feared. Anxiety score declined with age. Setting cut-off score at 70th percentile patients having anxiety score of > 43 were labelled as fearful, and those below as not fearful.
The scale was deemed valid and reliable tool.
确定《儿童恐惧调查表》牙科分量表乌尔都语版本在识别牙科焦虑儿童方面对儿童的有效性。
这项横断面研究于2015年11月在巴基斯坦拉合尔儿童医院进行，纳入采用方便抽样法选取的儿童患者。使用前后翻译法将《儿童恐惧调查表》牙科分量表翻译成乌尔都语，并施用于4至14岁的受试者，以评估其心理测量特性并设定识别恐惧儿童的临界分数。因子分析技术评估翻译后的条目，方差分析探索年龄与焦虑的关联。
204名参与者中，89名（43.6%）为女孩，115名（56.4%）为男孩。该调查在焦虑量表上呈正态分布，平均得分为32.13±12.06，可靠性高（α=0.934）。因子分析表明存在与西方研究结果相似的三因子模式。关于“窒息、钻孔声和张嘴”的条目最令人恐惧。焦虑得分随年龄下降。将临界分数设定在第70百分位数，焦虑得分>43的患者被标记为恐惧，得分低于该值的患者则被标记为不恐惧。
该量表被认为是有效且可靠的工具。
