. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Paediatr Dent. 2019 Sep 12;29(6):720–727. doi: 10.1111/ipd.12564

Table 1.

Dental Fear Survey and Fear of Pain Questionnaire-9 Means and Standard Deviations by Group.

	Adolescents (n = 350)		Mothers (n = 338)		Fathers (n = 177)
Measure	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
DFS
Total Score	33.3^a	14.4	43.4^b	20.8	37.3^c	19.0
Avoidance/Anticipatory Fear	11.2^a	5.4	14.8^b	8.3	12.9^c	7.3
Specific Dental Stimuli	13.1^a	7.0	16.4^b	8.0	13.9^a	7.5
Physiological Arousal	7.3^a	3.3	9.9^b	5.3	8.5^c	4.4
FPQ-9
Total Score	23.6^a	8.4	25.7^b	7.9	22.5^a	8.2
Fear of Minor Pain	6.0^a	2.9	6.5^b	2.6	6.0^a	2.3
Fear of Severe Pain	9.5^a	3.6	10.7^b	3.5	9.4^a	3.8
Fear of Medical/Dental Pain	8.1^a	3.6	8.4^a	3.3	7.1^b	3.4

Note. N = 865. Means in the same row with different superscripts are significantly different, p < .05. DFS is the Dental Fear Survey; FPQ-9 is the Fear of Pain Questionnaire-9.