The Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Version of the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale among Dental Outpatients

Table 3

Factor loading of the MDAS items.

Items	Mean	SD	Factor loading
MDAS item 1	1.99	0.83	0.88
MDAS item 2	2.09	0.90	0.86
MDAS item 3	2.49	0.98	0.90
MDAS item 4	1.50	0.72	0.64
MDAS item 5	2.83	1.08	0.84

MDAS = Modified Dental Anxiety Scale. SD = standard deviation.