Research Article

Adapting a Dental Anxiety Measure to Encourage Empathy

Table 1

Demographics of the total study population.

Total sample (N = 465)

Gender (%)
 Men37.0
 Women61.9
 Nonbinary1.1
Age (%)
 18–2460.4
 25–3425.6
 35–445.6
 45–545.2
 55–642.6
 65–740.4
 75+0.2
Ethnicity (%)
 White68.4
 Hispanic or Latinx6.0
 Black or African American2.4
 Native American or American Indian0.2
 Asian American/Pacific Islander14.2
 Other8.8
Have received dental care (%)
 Yes95.1
 No4.9
Domestic or nondomestic population (%)
 Domestic41.3
 Nondomestic58.7