Beliefs about professional ethics, dentist-patient communication, control and trust among fearful dental patients: the factor structure of the revised Dental Beliefs Survey.
The revised version of the Dental Beliefs Survey (DBS-R), intended to measure three dimensions of the patient dentist relationship as perceived by the patient, namely Ethics, Communication and Control, was tested in a confirmatory factor analysis. Five different models for the internal structure of the questionnaire were tested. The final model, a 5-factor solution, basically including the 3 assumed dimensions as well as the re-introduced dimension Trust covered in the first version of the DBS plus a global factor including all items, yielded an acceptable fit. This model also omits 4 items from DBS-R, i.e. items 3, 11, 18, and 28. The reduced DBS-R is recommended for clinical use when assessing the patient's perception of the relationship to the dentist, including both trust and ethical behavior.
Kvale
Gerd
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Center for Odontophobia and Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway. gerd.kvale@psykp.uib.no
Milgrom
Peter
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Getz
Tracy
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Weinstein
Philip
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Johnsen
Tom Backer
TB
D000328:Adult; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D016854:Dental Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D004645:Empathy; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D035502:Trust