Fear of injections and report of negative dentist behavior among Caucasian American and Taiwanese adults from dental school clinics

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 292-295

  Moore, Rod ^a,b   Brødsgaard, Inger ^a,b   Mao, Tai Kum ^c   Kwan, Hsueh Wan ^c   Shiau, Yuh Yuan ^c   Knudsen, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Dental care; Dentist patient relationship; Epidemiology; Local anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DENTAL ANESTHESIA; DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CLINIC; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL SURGERY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INJECTION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, DENTAL; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CLINICS; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DENTIST-PATIENT RELATIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; IOWA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, DENTAL; TAIWAN;

EID: 0030204142     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1996.tb00862.x     Document Type: Article

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