Research Article
Dental Fear Survey: A Cross-Sectional Study Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the Brazilian Portuguese Version
Table 1
Descriptive analysis and Cronbach’s alpha (
) coefficient for the Brazilian version of the Dental Fear Survey (DFS) (
)
| | Scale | Number of items | Mean (SD) | Percent floor (%) | Percent ceiling (%) | Cronbach’s |
| | DFS total | 20 | 34.83 (13.10) | 7.2 | 0.1 | 0.95 | | Avoidance | 8 | 11.18 (4.54) | 34.9 | 0.1 | 0.90 | | Physiological arousal | 5 | 8.00 (3.20) | 25.6 | 0.2 | 0.86 | | Fears of specific stimuli/situations | 7 | 15.65 (6.89) | 10.6 | 0.6 | 0.93 |
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SD = standard deviation.
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