Open AccessPrevalence and socio-demographic correlates of dental anxiety among a group of adult patients attending a dental institution in Vadodara city, Gujarat, India
Author(s) -
Ekta A Malvania,
CG Ajithkrishnan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9290.79989
Subject(s) - anxiety , medicine , descriptive statistics , analysis of variance , attendance , context (archaeology) , logistic regression , feeling , dentistry , family medicine , psychiatry , psychology , paleontology , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , economics , biology , economic growth
Anxiety is a subjective state of feelings. Dental anxiety is often reported as a cause of irregular dental attendance, delay in seeking dental care or even avoidance of dental care, resulting in poor oral health related quality of life.