NCT04933578

Preferences About Personal Protective Equipment

Children and Parents' Preferences About the Appearance of Dentists With Respect to Personal Protective Equipment in Pediatric Dentistry

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 500 (actual)
• Sponsor: Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Training and Research Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Personal protective equipment (PPE) gained importance during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is a global hot topic for all healthcare staff.

Detailed description

To assess children and parents preferences about dentists' appearance concerning their PPE and to determine the relationship between the preferences of the children and their parents. A total of 250 children aged with 6-12 years and their parents were enrolled in the study. Standardised pictures with different sex, attire, eye protector, hair protector, mask and gloves were shown to children and their parents separately and asked to chose their preferences. Dental anxiety of children and their parents were determined with MCDASf and MDAS, respectively. Decayed-missing-filled teeth (DMFT) index was employed to the children.

Conditions

• Dental Anxiety
• Behavior, Child
• Preference, Patient

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Dental anxiety scales	* The Faces Version of Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale (MCDASf), which is a psychometric dental anxiety scale for children with eight questions, was used to determine the dental anxiety levels of the children. The scores of each question are represented by varying cartoon faces according to emotions ranging from 1 'relaxed' to 5 'very anxious'. The total scores range from 8 to 40. The scores were categorized as not anxious (\>9), slightly anxious (9-16), fairly anxious (17-24), very anxious (25-32), and extremely anxious (33-40). * the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) was administered to parents, differently from children. The MDAS has five questions. The scores of each question range from 1 'relaxed' to 5 'very anxious.' The total score ranges from 5 to 25.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-15
• Primary completion: 2021-03-30
• Completion: 2021-04-05
• First posted: 2021-06-21
• Last updated: 2021-06-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)