Table 3.

Intraclass correlation coefficients for test–retest reliability of the five items and total score of the MDAS-A (n = 30)

MDAS-A item	ICC	95% CI
Visit tomorrow	0.938	0.870–0.970
Waiting room	0.929	0.851–0.966
Use of drill	0.780	0.538–0.895
Scale and polish	0.638	0.239–0.828
Injection	0.858	0.702–0.933
MDAS-A total	0.932	0.857–0.968

MDAS-A: Lebanese Arabic version of the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale, ICC Intraclass correlation coefficient, n frequency