Dental Anxiety in First- and Final-year Indian Dental Students

Overview

Journal BDJ Open

Specialty Dentistry

Date 2019 Oct 22

PMID 31632694

Citations 9

Authors

Chitta Ranjan Chowdhury

Shahnawaz Khijmatgar

Avidyuti Chowdhury

Stewart Harding

Edward Lynch

Martin Gootveld

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Abstract

Objectives: The study aims to investigate dental anxiety in first- and final-year undergraduate dental students in India.

Design: Questionnaire Study Setting: BDS Students in four University dental colleges in India carried-out during 2013 and 2014.

Subjects Materials And Methods: The students ( = 614) were assessed using a pre-tested questionnaire. We estimated the level of dental anxiety by using the Modified-Dental-Anxiety-Scale (MDAS). ANCOVA and Mann-Whitney U, and Chi-squared contingency tests were employed to analyze the extensive dataset acquired. Univariate clustering analysis and principal component regression were also applied. Students had similar demographic and lifestyle patterns.

Interventions: Assessments of the level of dental anxiety amongst undergraduate dental students.

Main Outcome Measures: Mean ± SD MDAS scores for first- and final-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) students were 12.96 ± 4.00 and 10.54 ± 3.41, respectively.

Results: Six hundred and fourteen ( = 614) students from four dental colleges were included in this study. In total 77% were female ( = 478) and 23% were male ( = 136). The mean age of the first- and final-year students were 18.31 and 21.54 years, respectively. First-year BDS students had dental anxiety score (Mean ± SD 12.96 ± 4.00) compared to that of the final year (10.54 ± 3.41), a difference which was very highly statistically significant ( < 0.0001).

Conclusions: Dental anxiety was moderately higher amongst first year BDS students over that of final-year students but it is lesser than the dental phobic threshold level.

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