[Concomitant and discriminatory validity of the Adolescents' Fear of Dental Treatment Cognitive Inventory].
The revised edition of the Inventaire cognitif de la peur des traitements dentaire pour adolescent(e)s [Adolescents' Fear of Dental Treatment Cognitive Inventory] (ICPTD-A) was administered to 38 subjects chosen at random and to nine subjects chosen with an obvious dental phobia problem. Its concomitant validity was established by relating the ICPTD-A scores to those of a behavioral test. The Pearson correlation coefficients that were thus obtained were -0.66 for the general population and -0.87 for the population suffering from dental phobia. The discriminatory validity was then established with a repeated measurement variance analysis based on the scores of the dental phobics after the administration of a recognized psychological treatment program intended to reduce their phobia. The results have shown a statistically significant difference between the experimental and control groups as well as a significant difference between pre- and posttreatments. The authors have therefore concluded that the ICPTD-A is a valid tool for the assessment of dental phobia in 12-15-year-old adolescents.
Gauthier
J G
JG
l'Ecole de psychologie de l'Université Laval.
Morin
B A
BA
Dufour
L
L
Ricard
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D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D016854:Dental Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008347:Manifest Anxiety Scale; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
La validité concomitante et discriminante de l'Inventaire cognitif de la peur des traitements dentaires pour adolescent(e)s.