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Background: Many patients and clinicians consider dental fear to be a major challenge. Knowledge about dental students’ own experiences with dental anxiety is very important. The present study, therefore, aimed to examine the levels of dental anxiety and fear among students in relation to their field of study and gender.
Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 720 (360 women and 360 men) recruited from the College of Dentistry and the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Science and Technology in Sana'a, Yemen. Corah’s Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) and Dental Fear Survey (DFS) were used to measure anxiety and fear among the study population. Spearman's correlation was applied to analyse the relationships among the anxiety measurements and the relationship between the DAS and DFS tests. Chi-square tests and linear regression analyses were applied to analyse the associations between dental anxiety or fear and contextual variables.
Results: Out of the 720 students enrolled, 713 students (354 men and 359 women) completed and returned the questionnaire, yielding a response rate of 99.03%. The associations among dental anxiety measurements and the DAS and DFS was statistically significant ( p < 0.01). Students from the dental colleges had less anxiety and fear than did those from the humanities and social sciences college ( p < 0.05). Men were less anxious and fearful than women ( p < 0.05). Dental anxiety and fear were more associated with women than were other contextual variables [for fear (OR = 1.14, p = 0.001); for anxiety (OR = 1.90, p = 0.001)].
Conclusions: Dental anxiety was found to be related to dental fear. Women were more anxious and fearful than men. Dental students were less anxious and fearful than those from the humanities and social sciences college. A lack of suitable dental health education may result in higher levels of anxiety and fear among students from non-dental colleges in Yemen.
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Undergraduate Students, Dental Anxiety, Dental Fear, Education, Yemen
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Background: Many patients and clinicians consider dental fear to be a major challenge. Knowledge about dental students’ own experiences with dental anxiety is very important. The present study, therefore, aimed to examine the levels of dental anxiety and fear among students in relation to their field of study and gender.
Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 720 (360 women and 360 men) recruited from the College of Dentistry and the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Science and Technology in Sana'a, Yemen. Corah’s Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) and Dental Fear Survey (DFS) were used to measure anxiety and fear among the study population. Spearman's correlation was applied to analyse the relationships among the anxiety measurements and the relationship between the DAS and DFS tests. Chi-square tests and linear regression analyses were applied to analyse the associations between dental anxiety or fear and contextual variables.
Results: Out of the 720 students enrolled, 713 students (354 men and 359 women) completed and returned the questionnaire, yielding a response rate of 99.03%. The associations among dental anxiety measurements and the DAS and DFS was statistically significant ( p < 0.01). Students from the dental colleges had less anxiety and fear than did those from the humanities and social sciences college ( p < 0.05). Men were less anxious and fearful than women ( p < 0.05). Dental anxiety and fear were more associated with women than were other contextual variables [for fear (OR = 1.14, p = 0.001); for anxiety (OR = 1.90, p = 0.001)].
Conclusions: Dental anxiety was found to be related to dental fear. Women were more anxious and fearful than men. Dental students were less anxious and fearful than those from the humanities and social sciences college. A lack of suitable dental health education may result in higher levels of anxiety and fear among students from non-dental colleges in Yemen.
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