NCT06142227

The Effect of Reading a Pictorial Storybook on Children's Fear, Anxiety and Emotional Symptoms Before Dental Treatment

The Effect of Reading a Pictorial Storybook on Children's Fear, Anxiety and Emotional Symptoms Before Dental Treatment: A Randomised Controlled Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Gamze Akay · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of reading a picture storybook on children's fear, anxiety and emotional symptoms before dental treatment.

Detailed description

In children with receiving dental treatment will be randomly divided into two groups: picture storybook group and control. Interventions will be applied for only 1 times. While the illustrated storybook is read to the experimental group, no intervention will be applied to the control group. The children will be assessed before, during and after. Fear, anxiety and emotional symptoms due to dental treatment procedure will be evaluated using the Children's Emotional Indicator Scale, Child Anxiety Scale-Stateness and Children's Fear Scale.

Conditions

• Dental Fear

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Reading a Pictorial Storybook	The pictorial storybook by children will be chosen by child psychologists. The book will be read to children by researcher. The researcher has a fairy tale therapy certificate. The pictorial storybook reading will start 15 minutes before the dental treatment process and will be completed before the treatment process begins.. The pictorial storybook will be read to children only one time.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-01
• Primary completion: 2024-05-01
• Completion: 2024-05-30
• First posted: 2023-11-21
• Last updated: 2023-11-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)