NCT06122883

Dental Attire Effect on Children's Dental Anxiety

Official Title Evaluating the Effect of Dentist's Attire on Children's Acceptance of Dental Treatment Including Local Anesthesia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Damascus University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of friendly attire on dental anxiety among children visiting dental office in comparison with conventional attire. All of the children who will be experienced maxillary dental anesthesia with/without distraction will be assessed by using a combination of measures: Wong-Baker faces and the Children's Fear Scale (self-report), heart pulse rate, and behavior (using Anxiety levels using Face - Legs - Activity - Cry - Consolability "FLACC" scale "external evaluator") Acceptance will be measured using a two-point Likert scale.

Detailed description

This study will evaluate the effect of dental attire on children's acceptance of different dental treatments that include dental anesthesia. pain and anxiety will be evaluated during buccal and palatal infiltration using five behavioral scales, Wong-Baker pain scale, Children's Fear Scale and Children's Anxiety Questionnaire (self-report), pulse rate (physiological) and behavior (using FLACC behavior rating scale "external evaluator". Heart pulse rate measurement will be recorded firstly when the patient is seated comfortably in the reception area, on dental chair prior to the injection, and finally after the procedure is done and the child patients will be asked to choose a face that describe their status from one of both Wong Baker faces scale, Children's Fear Scale and Children's Anxiety Questionnaire. Body responses of all child patients will be recorded during the whole procedure and then will be evaluated by an external evaluator to determine the children behavioral score according to FLACC scale.

Conditions

• Behavior, Child
• Dental Anxiety
• Anesthesia, Local

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Evaluation the effectiveness of distraction in the reception area in the management of anxious pediatric patients during dental local anesthesia	Buccal and palatal infiltration will be administrated with basic behavior guidance techniques while the dentist wearing conventional attire in the treatment room after meeting the child in the reception area while wearing the friendly attire.
BEHAVIORAL	Evaluation the effectiveness of distraction in the treatment area in the management of anxious pediatric patients during dental local anesthesia	Buccal and palatal infiltration will be administrated with basic behavior guidance techniques while the dentist wearing friendly attire in the treatment room after meeting the child in the reception area while wearing the conventional attire.
BEHAVIORAL	Evaluation the effectiveness of distraction in both reception and treatment areas in the management of anxious pediatric patients during dental local anesthesia	Buccal and palatal infiltration will be administrated with basic behavior guidance techniques while the dentist wearing friendly attire in the reception area and treatment room.
BEHAVIORAL	Evaluation of the effectiveness of basic behavior guidance techniques without using any type of distraction aids in the management of anxious pediatric patients during dental local anesthesia	Buccal and palatal infiltration will be administrated with basic behavior guidance techniques while the dentist wearing conventional attire in the reception area and treatment room.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-15
• Primary completion: 2023-12-15
• Completion: 2024-05-25
• First posted: 2023-11-08
• Last updated: 2024-07-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Syria