Determining Cut-Off Points for the Dental Fear Survey

Table 4

Multinomial logistic regression model adjusted for predicting the fearfulness of going to the dentist comparing observed values (responses to direct question) with predicted values (based on DFS scores and cut-off points) ().

Observed value	Predicted value				Correct classification (%)
	Not fearful	Low fearfulness	Highly fearful	Total
Not fearful	756	14	24	794	95.2
Low fearfulness	230	10	53	293	3.4
Highly fearful	108	11	49	168	29.2
Total	1,094	35	126	1,255	64.9
	69.1%	28.6%	38.9%