Portuguese version of Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale: Transcultural adaptation and reliability analysis

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 467-471

  Li, Wen Hu ^a,b   Gorenstein, Clarice ^a   Fuentes, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

DAS; Dental anxiety; Portuguese version of DAS; Transcultural adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORAH DENTAL ANXIETY SCALE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DENTAL ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; BRAZIL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DENTAL ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS;

EID: 36048990004     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20258     Document Type: Article

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