NCT06241157

Pediatric-Quiz Game Behaviour Guidance in Children

A Novel Behavior Guidance Technique: "The Pediatric Quiz Game" for the Management of Anxious Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Marmara University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Behavior orientation is the cornerstone of the success of pediatric dentistry. The use of behavior management techniques enables children to learn appropriate behavior and coping skills, reduce anxiety, and facilitate the delivery of adequate oral health care. Some behavior guidance systems have been tried to be created. On the basis of the magic game, it has been tried to move the children away from the current real situation, the reality of dental treatment, to move forward in communication and successful results have been obtained. The main thing in the technique is to start the communication with the child in the waiting room of the dentist and to reduce the anxiety of the child by improving the self-efficacy perception of the child. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of question-answer behavior guidance technique in dental treatment in pediatric patients.

Detailed description

Behavior orientation is the cornerstone of the success of pediatric dentistry. The use of behavior management techniques enables children to learn appropriate behavior and coping skills, reduce anxiety, and facilitate the delivery of adequate oral health care. Better communication can be achieved when children feel the freedom to express themselves. In the same way, parents may state that in cases where there is no coercion and verbal communication, the children are uncomfortable and they have problems during their second-third dentist visits. However, in some cases, success may not be achieved even if different behavior management techniques are applied. Activities such as diverting attention in children to other areas, starting the communication in the waiting room before entering the practice environment can lead to self-confidence, relaxation and confidence. The method of rewarding can also be very effective in directing behavior in children. For this reason, it communicates with a combination of some techniques without depending on only one technique and can lead to applications in dentistry practice. Based on this idea, some behavior guidance systems have been tried to be created. On the basis of the magic game, it has been tried to move the children away from the current real situation, the reality of dental treatment, to move forward in communication and successful results have been obtained. With this information, the aim of our study is to experience a new behavior management technique in children. The main thing in the technique is to start the communication with the child in the waiting room of the dentist and to reduce the anxiety of the child by improving the self-efficacy perception of the child. In this direction, in order to increase the child's self-efficacy perception, simple questions are asked to the child about colors, fruits and animals, if necessary, clues are given to give correct answers, and verbal praise for correct answers aims to increase self-efficacy perception and reduce anxiety. After the communication is started in the waiting room, the dental examination, dental chair and planned procedures will be introduced to the child, together with the tell-show-do method, as always practiced in the dental chair. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of question-answer behavior guidance technique in dental treatment in pediatric patients. Children's pain and anxiety levels were assessed by various tests designed to purpose. The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), a self-reporting scale,was preferred to evaluate children's experience of pain. The scale displayed a colored spectrum on the front side ranging from no pain (white) to severe pain (red), which indicates relevant pain scores ranging from 0 to 10 on the reverse side.10

Conditions

• Behavior, Child

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pediatric Quiz Game	Investigator will start interacting with children upon their arrival and during their presence in the waiting room before entering the operating room. This will help to obtain better cooperation (frankl scale) and anxiety reductions (FIS and VPT) at different stages of the dental examination (e.g., entering the clinic, sitting on the dental chair, opening mouth, examination with mirror, probe, use of low-high-speed handpieces, ITR restoration). Pediatric Quiz is actually an ice-breaking quiz game developed for children, with the promise of a surprise gift at the end. It can be defined as "asking children basic questions on colors, animals, fruits and/or cities depending on the age of the child among which the child would choose him/herself and answer the question easily.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-21
• Primary completion: 2024-04-20
• Completion: 2024-05-01
• First posted: 2024-02-05
• Last updated: 2026-03-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)