ODFA
Ontology of Dental care-related Fear, Anxiety, and/or Phobia
Award Number: U01DE033978
NIH RePORTER Project Details: https://reporter.nih.gov/search/aJTTkRZK0EGi_uXcbrrWoQ/project-details/11170446
Principal Investigators
Overview
Goals
1.
Standardize DFA terminology
2.
Enhance annotation and analyses of existing DFA data
3.
Facilitate integration of DFA data from multiple sources
4.
Develop better DFA assessment instruments
5.
Develop interventions to prevent dental appointment avoidance and cancellations
Aims
Resources
1.
ODFA is available on Bioportal: https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/ODFA
2.
ODFA is developed using GitHub. Issues can be submitted to: https://github.com/oral-health-and-disease-ontologies/ohd-ontology/issues
Publications
Milivinti E, Wilson F, Duncan W, McNeil D, Challa R, Ensz O, Heaton B, Singhal A, Cooper M, Yu J, Sardzinski E & Diehl A (2025). Integrating Multi-Survey Data into an Ontological Model of Dental Fear and Anxiety. Joint Ontology Workshops Episode XI (JOWO) 2025. September 8-9, 2025. Catania, Italy.
Milivinti E, Diehl AD, Wilson F, Challa R & Duncan WD (2025). Integrating Temporal-Related Dental Visit Metadata and Its Impact on Dental Care-Related Fear and/or Anxiety into the Ontology of Dental-Care Related Fear and Anxiety. BOSC 2025, the 26th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference. July 21-22, 2025. Liverpool, UK.
Wilson F, Duncan W, Milivinti E, Ensz O, Singal A, Challa R, Jesudas B, Heaton B, McNeil D & Diehl A (2025). Using the Linked Data Modeling Language and the Oral Health and Disease Ontology to Represent Dental Care-Related Fear and Anxiety Studies. Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation. July 21-22, 2025. Liverpool, UK
Duncan WD, Diehl AD, Challa RANR, Ensz OS, Singhal A, Wilson F, Heaton B & McNeil DW (2025). The Ontology of Dental Fear and Anxiety. 2025 Spring Synergy: Research Day. April 11, 2025. 2025 Spring Synergy: Research Day. April 11, 2025. Gainesville, FL, USA
Duncan W, Diehl A, Ensz O, Singhal A, Heaton B & McNeil D (2025). The Ontology of Dental Fear and Anxiety. 2025 AADOCR/CADR Annual Meeting. March 12-15, 2025. New York City, NY, USA. IADR Abstract Archive. https://iadr.abstractarchives.com/abstract/54am-4216254/the-ontology-of-dental-fear-and-anxiety
Duncan WD, Singhal A, Ensz OS, Diehl AD, Heaton B & McNeil DW (2024). Initial Steps in Developing an Ontology of Dental Care-Related Fear, Anxiety, and Phobia - Abstract. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2024). July 18-19, 2024, Enschede, The Netherlands. CEUR-WS, vol 3939. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3939/abstract5.pdf
Wilson FD, Chandrasekharan GM, Diller M, Seo J, Diehl AD & Duncan WD (2024). Building an Ontology of Pain - Abstract. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2024). July 18-19, 2024, Enschede, The Netherlands. CEUR-WS, vol 3939. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3939/abstract8.pdf
Team
Bill Duncan
Principal Investigator
Dan McNeil
Principal Investigator
Olga Ensz
Co-Investigator
Astha Singhal
Co-Investigator
Brenda Heaton
Co-Investigator
Alex Diehl
Co-Investigator
Corinne Manley
Co-Investigator
Finn Wilson
PhD Candidate
Jiahang Yu
Data Scientist
Michelle Cooper
Research Coordinator
William Elwood
NIDCR Behavioral Scientist
Noffisat Oki
NIDCR Project Scientist