NCT03218462

Effect of Sensory Adapted Dental Environment on Dental Anxiety of Children With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Children with intellectual/developmental disabilities (ID/DD) will experience less dental anxiety and cooperate better in a Sensory Adapted Dental Environment (modified visual, sensory, and somatosensory stimuli in a regular dental setting) than in a regular dental environment (RDE).

Detailed description

The aim of this pilot study is to determine the effect of sensory adapted dental environment (SADE) on reducing dental anxiety of children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (ID/DD). With the growing number of children diagnosed with ID/DD and their inclusion in the community, there are more opportunities for dentists to encounter this population for their routine oral health care. If improvement in dental anxiety and behavior is evident from the study, as other pilot studies have suggested, it can be applied as one of clinical tools for treating children with ID/DDs. Furthermore, utilization of a SADE in clinical training of pediatric dentists or general dentists can improve clinicians' comfort level in managing behavior of individuals with ID/DD. This will encourage more clinicians to provide care and address the unmet oral health needs of this vulnerable population.

Conditions

• Developmental Disability
• Intellectual Disability
• Dental Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Sensory Adapted Dental Environment (SADE)	No fluorescent room lights, solar projector on ceiling, regular dental x-ray apron laying on patient, quiet music playing in background

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-10
• Primary completion: 2018-03-30
• Completion: 2018-03-30
• First posted: 2017-07-14
• Last updated: 2018-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States