Revised dental beliefs survey: reliability and validity of a 22-item modified Turkish version

✍ Scribed by K. ERCİYAS; Z. HAMAMCİ; S. BUYUKOZTURK; A. F. ERCİYAS

• Book ID: 108881917
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 133 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0305-182X
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2842.2009.02001.x

✦ Synopsis

Summary The aim of this study is to create a Turkish version of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey (DBS‐R) and describe its psychometric properties. The participants were 420 general dental patients. The results of the exploratory factor analysis revealed that the DBS‐R consisted of three factors consisting of 22 items. Confirmatory factor analysis results showed that the 22‐item three‐factor version fit the data better than the original 28‐item English language four‐factor structure model proposed in Odontol Scand (2004;62:21). The internal reliability of the Turkish version of the DBS‐R was Cronbach alpha of 0·88. The correlation between the Turkish version of the DBS‐R and the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) was 0·29. Scores on the 22‐item version were higher for anxious participants (MDAS ≥ 15) than those determined to be not anxious [59·4 ± 15·5 vs. 51·1 ± 17·2 (t= −4·38, P<0·0001)]. In conclusion, a 22‐item modified version of the DBS‐R in Turkish appears reliable and valid.