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Dental Anxiety among the Students of Public Sector Medical Universities of Karachi

Author(s) -

S Zarah,

Muhammad Mansoor Majeed,

Ayyub Imtiaz

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of dentistry and orofacial surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2470-9735

DOI - 10.19104/jdos.2016.111

Subject(s) - anxiety , medical education , public sector , psychology , family medicine , medicine , dentistry , political science , psychiatry , law

This study intended to gauge the ranks of dental anxiety among medical, dental and pharmacy students at Dow Univeristy of Health Sciences (DUHS) and Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) and to discover the bases of dental fear among them. This cross sectional descriptive analytical study was carried out among 400 medical, dental and pharmacy students of DUHS and JSMU among which 314 were returned. The questions engendered from standardized questionnaire of DAS (Dental Anxiety Scale). Questions from DAS and DFS along with statistics about age, sex, course of study, year of university admission and history of dental clinic Among the three different faculties MDAS of students of Dental Colleges were lower than the, medical colleges and pharmacy college student. Dental students have ominously lower ranks of dental anxiety than medical and pharmacy students. Females presented advanced ranks than male. Deficiency of dental tutoring may perhaps result in elevated level of dental anxiety amongst non-dental university students.

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