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Journal of Dental Research, Vol 70, 198-203, Copyright © 1991 by International & American Associations for Dental Research Online Journals

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Correlates of dental anxiety among older adults

D. Locker and A. M. Liddell
Department of Community Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This paper reports on a study of dental anxiety among adults aged 50 years and over living independently in two communities in Ontario, Canada. Subjects were identified by means of a telephone survey based on random-digit dialing. Data on dental anxiety were collected from 580 subjects by means of a self-completed questionnaire and were measured by the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) (Corah, 1969). The mean DAS score was 7.8, and 8.4% of subjects were classified as dentally anxious. Age was the only demographic factor associated with dental anxiety. Older individuals had lower DAS scores than younger individuals (p less than 0.0001). There was also a significant association between dental anxiety and general fearfulness measured by the Fear Survey Schedule II (Geer, 1965) (r = 0.31; p less than 0.001). A series of regression analyses revealed that dental anxiety was a significant predictor of a number of behavioral and oral health outcomes. While these results confirm that dental anxiety is less prevalent among older adults than in younger populations, it has a number of important consequences with respect to dental care provision.


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