Open AccessEvaluation of treatment related fear using a newly developed fear scale for children: "Fear assessment picture scale" and its association with physiological response
Author(s) -
Nishidha Tiwari,
Shailesh Tiwari,
Ruchi Thakur,
N. Agrawal,
N D Shashikiran,
Shefali Singla
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
contemporary clinical dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.289
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 0976-237X
pISSN - 0976-2361
DOI - 10.4103/0976-237x.161871
Subject(s) - pulpectomy , wilcoxon signed rank test , anxiety , dental fear , medicine , audiology , clinical psychology , mann–whitney u test , psychology , dentistry , psychiatry , pulp (tooth)
Dental treatment is usually a poignant phenomenon for children. Projective scales are preferred over psychometric scales to recognize it, and to obtain the self-report from children.