Publication Name	World Journal of Meta-Analysis
Manuscript ID	10545
Country	Saudi Arabia

Received	2014-04-06 11:54
Peer-Review Started	2014-04-07 10:40
To Make the First Decision	2014-05-23 15:09
Return for Revision	2014-05-25 15:39
Revised	2014-05-27 00:00
Second Decision	2014-06-27 17:41
Accepted by Journal Editor-in-Chief
Accepted by Executive Editor-in-Chief	2014-06-27 17:57
Articles in Press	2014-06-27 18:15
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Category	Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Manuscript Type	Observational Study
Article Title	Development of the first Arabic cognitive dental anxiety scale for children and young adults
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Abeer Al-Namankany, Paul Ashley and Aviva Petrie
Funding Agency and Grant Number
Corresponding Author	Dr Abeer Al-Namankany Paediatric Dentistry department University College London Eastman Dental Institute WC1 X8LD London UK
Key Words	Anxiety; Cognition; Children
Core Tip	The Abeer children dental anxiety scale (ACDAS) scale is different from existing scales as it is the first dental anxiety scale for children which correlate dental anxiety with cognitive status. It can recognise the stimuli for dental anxiety in a logical order, and has questions concerning the expectation of the child’s legal guardian about the behaviour of the child before the treatment, whether the child has any previous dental treatment experience and the dentist’s rating for the child’s behaviour at the end of the treatment at the same visit. Finally, when assessing the external validity of the binary ACDAS, it was shown that its results compared favourably with those of the main study (? = 0.79, sensitivity = 96.4%, specificity = 65.9%) when applied to children in a different London school (? = 0.68, sensitivity = 92.9%, specificity = 73.5%). Therefore, ACDAS was shown to work well in two different locations with different children, which suggests that it is a generalisable scale. Based on the findings of this study, it is proposed that the ACDAS encompasses the required criteria for the gold standard dental anxiety scale for children.
Publish Date	2014-09-25 11:49
Citation	Al-Namankany A, Ashley P, Petrie A. Development of the first Arabic cognitive dental anxiety scale for children and young adults. World J Meta-Anal 2014; 2(3): 64-70
URL	http://www.wjgnet.com/2308-3840/full/v2/i3/64.htm
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.13105/wjma.v2.i3.64

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