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Beliefs about professional ethics, dentist-patient communication, control and trust among fearful dental patients: the factor structure of the revised Dental Beliefs Survey.
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Acta Odontologica Scandinavica . Feb2004, Vol. 62 Issue 1, p21-29. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00016357
- Volume :
- 62
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12511418
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00016350310005780