Dental Anxiety among Medical and Paramedical Undergraduate Students of Malaysia

Table 5

Comparison of mean MDAS for each item according to field of study.

Items	Faculty			P value
	Dental	Medical	Pharmacy
If you went to your dentist for treatment tomorrow, how would you feel?	1.87 ± 0.93	2.34 ± 1.21	2.30 ± 1.21	<0.001
If you were sitting in the waiting room (waiting for treatment), how would you feel?	2.10 ± 1.01	2.49 ± 1.22	2.54 ± 1.26	<0.001
If you were about to have a tooth drilled, how would you feel?	2.79 ± 1.15	3.28 ± 1.23	3.50 ± 1.15	<0.001
If you were about to have your teeth scaled and polished, how would you feel?	1.88 ± 1.03	2.45 ± 1.24	2.56 ± 1.32	<0.001
If you were about to have a local anesthetic injection in your gum, above an upper back tooth, how would you feel?	3.31 ± 1.19	3.24 ± 1.29	3.58 ± 1.26	0.01

Data are presented as mean ± SD and compared by Kruskal Wallis test. , statistically significant; , statistically highly significant.