Liddell A, Locker D
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada.
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 1997 Aug;25(4):314-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1997.tb00945.x.
In the literature, it is usual to find women and younger subjects reporting higher levels of dental anxiety than men and older subjects. Fear of pain was found to be the most important predictor of dental anxiety and issues of control were also related to such anxiety. Therefore, it was predicted that gender and age differences would be reflected in attitudes to pain and control. Subjects were randomly selected from the voters' list in metropolitan Toronto and mailed a questionnaire with a request for cooperation in a study of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviour regarding dental treatment. The questionnaire included demographic data, measures of dental anxiety and painful experiences as well as the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale and the Iowa Dental Control Index. The results supported the main predictions. In addition, attitudes to pain and control were found to be complex phenomena with characteristic gender differences.
在文献中，通常会发现女性和较年轻的受试者比男性和年长的受试者报告更高水平的牙科焦虑。对疼痛的恐惧被发现是牙科焦虑最重要的预测因素，而控制问题也与这种焦虑有关。因此，据预测，性别和年龄差异将反映在对疼痛和控制的态度上。受试者从大多伦多的选民名单中随机选取，并收到一份问卷，请求他们配合一项关于其对牙科治疗的想法、感受和行为的研究。问卷包括人口统计学数据、牙科焦虑和疼痛经历的测量，以及疼痛焦虑症状量表和爱荷华牙科控制指数。结果支持了主要预测。此外，发现对疼痛和控制的态度是具有特征性性别差异的复杂现象。
