STRUCTURAL COMPARISON OF A TRANSLATED DENTAL ATTITUDE QUESTIONNAIRE -A FACTOR-ANALYTIC STUDY

In 1984 the Dental Attitude Questionnaire (DAQ), an instrument for ass essing various aspects of a person's attitude toward oral health care, was presented by STOCKWELL & BANTING. The DAQ consists of six content scales, Cynicism, Health Concern, Motivation, Oral Function, Social A esthetic and Susceptibility, and two validity scales, Halo and Infrequ ency. A Dutch translation was presented in 1986 by HOOGSTRATEN & BROER S. In order to replicate the factor analysis on the original DAQ as re ported by STOCKWELL & BANTING, the present study was undertaken. The r esults show a change in factor structure from a three factor solution to a two factor solution. A confirmatory factor analysis shows that th e original three factor structure of the DAQ is not present in the dat a collected with the translated version. To account for this change, s ome possible reasons are discussed.