Psychometric properties of Spanish-language adult dental fear measures

BMC Oral Health

Table 3 Reliability Analyses for Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS), Dental Fear Survey (DFS), and Needle Survey (NS) by Sample

Sample	MDAS Alpha	MDAS Intraclass Correlation (95% CI)	DFS Alpha	DFS Intraclass Correlation (95% CI)	NS Alpha	NS Intraclass Correlation (95% CI)
English-speaking Community	0.86		0.96		0.92
Spanish-speaking Community	0.83		0.95		0.92
English-speaking College Students	0.91	0.94 (0.87–0.97)	0.97	0.94 (0.88–0.97)	0.94	0.88 (0.73–0.95)
Spanish-speaking College Students	0.85	0.69 (0.34–0.85)	0.92	0.86 (0.68–0.97)	0.92	0.94 (0.86–0.97)
Spanish-speaking Patients	0.80		0.96		0.94

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