title: Psychometric properties of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objectives of this pair of studies were to examine the internal reliability, test-retest reliability, and construct validity of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 108 college students completed two questionnaires containing the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey, as well as the Revised Iowa Dental Control Index, and Desirability of Control scales. As part of another experiment, 141 study participants with dental injection phobia completed the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey and the Dental Anxiety Scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both the internal and test-retest reliabilities of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey were high. The measure demonstrated good convergent and discriminant validities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Revised Dental Beliefs Survey is well-suited for use with clinical and nonclinical populations, in which a stable and valid measure of perceptions of the dental situation is desired.
authors: Dental Public Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7475, USA. tcoolidg@u.washington.edu
authors: Trilby
authors: T
authors: Coolidge
authors: Masahiro
authors: M
authors: Heima
authors: Susan E
authors: SE
authors: Coldwell
authors: Philip
authors: P
authors: Weinstein
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Milgrom
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003142:Communication; D016854:Dental Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D024382:Professional Role; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires