Table 2.

Internal consistency of the MDAS-A scale (N = 451)

MDAS-A item	Mean (SD)	Scale mean if item deleted	Scale variance if item deleted	Corrected item-total correlation	Cronbach's alpha if item deleted	Cronbach's alpha
Visit tomorrow	1.8 (1.01)	8.26	15.28	0.82	0.88
Waiting room	1.8 (1.04)	8.28	15.14	0.81	0.88
Use of drill	2.2 (1.17)	7.85	14.17	0.82	0.87
Scale and polish	1.91 (1.11)	8.15	15.62	0.68	0.90
Injection	2.34 (1.23)	7.72	14.50	0.72	0.90
MDAS-A total	10.1 (4.78)					0.91

MDAS-A: Lebanese Arabic version of the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale; SD, Standard deviation