Italian Version of Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale: Normative Data in Patients Undergoing Oral Surgery and Relationship With the ASA Physical Status Classification

Abstract

To test the Italian translation of Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) and to check the relationship between dental anxiety and the American Society of Anesthesiologists ( ASA ) physical status classification ( ASA-PS ), the DAS was translated into Italian and administered to 1072 Italian patients (620 male and 452 female patients, ages 14^85 years) undergoing oral surgery. Patients'conditions were checked and rated according to the ASA-PS. The DAS ranged from 4 to 20 (modus 5 8, median 5 10); 59.5% of patients had a DAS of 7^12, 26.1% had a DAS .12, and 10.3% had a DAS .15.The mean DAS was 10.29 (95% confidence limit 5 0.19); female patients were more anxious than male patients (P ,.001), while patients older than 60 years showed a significant decrease in the level of anxiety. Five hundred two patients were rated as ASA-PS class P1, 502 as ASA-PS class P2, and 68 as ASA-PS class P3, with a mean DAS score of 9.69,10.78, and11.09, respectively: the DAS difference between groups was significant (P ,.001).

Cross-Cultural adaption, validity and reliability of a Hindi versionof the Corah’s Dental Anxiety Scale

“… 22 The psychometric properties of this scale have been determined in English, 15 Chinese, 23 Portugese 24 and Italian language. 25 CDAS was also found valid and reliable in a sample of Brazilian adults. 22 …”

“…Cronbach’s alpha value of Hindi CDAS in the present study was 0.78 which is good and acceptable. The value of Cronbach’s alpha for adults from Brazilian population was 0.83, 22 from Portuguese population was 0.838, 24 for Italian population was 0.883 25 and from English population, it ranged from 0.75 to 0.92 in various subgroups. 15 The items fitted well with each other on the scale because the corrected item-total correlation coefficients of all 4 items were above 0.4.…”

“…Basic demographic data like age, gender and education were obtained along with the study instrument. 2 , 3 , 4 , 23 , 25 , 27 Additionally, information such as self-perceived oral health status, previous visit to the dentist and their experience of the visit were also obtained. Apart from the CDAS, a visual analogue scale 27 (VAS) was also recorded to measure the convergent validity.…”

Diagnóstico e Manejo da Ansiedade Odontológica pelos Cirurgiões-Dentistas

“…Esta constatação é preocupante pois, da mesma forma que para fazer o plano de tratamento o cirurgião-dentista leva em consideração vários fatores, é desejável que também fosse feita uma avaliação estruturada da ansiedade odontológica do paciente (Berggren, 2001;Dailey, Humphris, & Lennon, 2001;Facco, Zanette, & Manani, 2008).…”

Značaj korelacije između koeficijenta anksioznosti DASR i kardio–vaskularnog odgovora kroz praćenje vitalnih parametara kod oralno-hirurške intervencije

“…U literaturi koja se bavi ovom vrstom istraživanja prikazane su različite skale za mjerenje dentalne anksioznosti. Kleinknecht's Dental Fear Survey (DFS) i Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) su skale koje imaju široku primjenu i upotrebu kod populacije različite dobne starosti [1,2]. Prvonavedena skala je razvijena da evidentira dentalni strah i reakciju na strah od odlaska stomatologu.…”