. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 11.

Published in final edited form as: Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2016 Oct 11;45(1):66–73. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12261

Table 1. Demographic Characteristics and Dental fear and Fear of Pain Assessments.

Sample Characteristics	Mean (SD, Range) or n (Percentage)
Demographics
Sex (men / women)	543 (39.6%) / 827 (60.4%)
Age (years)	29.2 (SD = 12.2, 11-74)
Ethnicity/Race (white / African American /Hispanic / Native American / Asian / Other)	1201 (87.7%) / 138 (10.1%) / 11 (0.8%) / 1 (0.1%) / 6 (0.4%) / 13 (1.0%)
Dental Fear Survey
Total Score	37.9 (SD = 18.2, 20-100)
Avoidance Subscale	12.7 (SD = 7.1, 8-40)
Specific Stimuli Subscale	14.4 (SD = 7.4, 6-30)
Physiological Arousal Subscale	8.7 (SD = 4.4, 5-25)
Fear of Pain Questionnaire-9
Total Score	23.6 (SD = 8.2, 9-45)
Minor Pain Subscale	6.0 (SD = 2.6, 3-15)
Severe Pain Subscale	9.7 (SD = 3.7, 3-15)
Medical/Dental Pain Subscale	7.8 (SD = 3.4, 3-15)