Anxiety before dental surgery under local anesthesia: reducing the items on state anxiety in the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-form X.
Sayo KogaMika SetoShigeaki MoriyamaToshihiro KikutaPublished in: Journal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine (2017)
It was possible to reduce the number of items in the STAI by focusing on "Preoperative anxiety before dental surgery."