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Psychometric properties of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey
Issue online:
06 Jul 2005
Submitted 5 January 2004; accepted 6 August 2004
To cite this article: Trilby Coolidge, Masahiro Heima, Susan E. Coldwell, Philip Weinstein, Peter Milgrom (2005)
Psychometric properties of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 33 (4), 289̉297.
doi:10.1111/j.1600-0528.2005.00214.x
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Trilby Coolidge11Dental Public Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Masahiro Heima1,21Dental Public Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA2Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama, Japan, Susan E. Coldwell11Dental Public Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Philip Weinstein11Dental Public Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA and Peter Milgrom11Dental Public Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Trilby Coolidge, PhD, Dental Public Health Sciences, Box 357475, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7475, USA
e-mail: tcoolidg@u.washington.edu
Coolidge T, Heima M, Coldwell SE, Weinstein P, Milgrom P. Psychometric properties of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2005; 33: 289̉97. © Blackwell Munksgaard, 2005

Abstract
Objectives: The objectives of this pair of studies were to examine the internal reliability, test̉retest 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 test̉retest reliabilities of the Revised Dental Beliefs Survey were high. The measure demonstrated good convergent and discriminant validities.

Conclusion: 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.

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