Screening measures
Anxiety, anxiety, tooth, depression, Depression
Participants completed a questionnaire set comprising Demographic data, Modified Dental Anxiety Score (MDAS) and Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale (HADS) information. MDAS consists of five-items related to the dentist’s waiting room, tooth drilling and scaling in addition to local anaesthetic injection. The 5-point scale responses can vary from: Not Anxious (score of 1) to Extremely Anxious (score of 5). The sum can produce a total score ranging from 5 to 25 with cut-off value of 19 (score The general anxiety and depression were measured using HADS, a 14-item questionnaire that produces two scales, one for anxiety (HADS–A) and one for depression (HADS–D), with scores of 