Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of dental anxiety among a group of adult patients attending a dental institution in Vadodara city, Gujarat, India | Zendy

EktaA Malvania | Zendy; CG Ajithkrishnan | Zendy

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Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of dental anxiety among a group of adult patients attending a dental institution in Vadodara city, Gujarat, India

Author(s) -

EktaA Malvania,

CG Ajithkrishnan

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

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.

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