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Dental anxiety in first- and final-year Indian dental students
Chitta Ranjan Chowdhury1,2, Shahnawaz Khijmatgar1, Avidyuti Chowdhury3
1Department of Oral Biology & Genomic Studies, AB Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Nitte Deemed University, Mangalore, 575018 India.
Objectives:
The study aims to investigate dental anxiety in first- and final-year undergraduate dental students in India.
Design:
Questionnaire Study Setting: BDS Students in four University dental colleges in India carried-out during 2013 and 2014.
Subjects Materials And Methods:
The students (n = 614) were assessed using a pre-tested questionnaire. We estimated the level of dental anxiety by using the Modified-Dental-Anxiety-Scale (MDAS). ANCOVA and Mann-Whitney U, and Chi-squared contingency tests were employed to analyze the extensive dataset acquired. Univariate clustering analysis and principal component regression were also applied. Students had similar demographic and lifestyle patterns.
Interventions:
Assessments of the level of dental anxiety amongst undergraduate dental students.
Main Outcome Measures:
Mean ± SD MDAS scores for first- and final-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) students were 12.96 ± 4.00 and 10.54 ± 3.41, respectively.
Results:
Six hundred and fourteen (n = 614) students from four dental colleges were included in this study. In total 77% were female (n = 478) and 23% were male (n = 136). The mean age of the first- and final-year students were 18.31 and 21.54 years, respectively. First-year BDS students had dental anxiety score (Mean ± SD 12.96 ± 4.00) compared to that of the final year (10.54 ± 3.41), a difference which was very highly statistically significant (p < 0.0001).
Conclusions:
Dental anxiety was moderately higher amongst first year BDS students over that of final-year students but it is lesser than the dental phobic threshold level.
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