NCT06483828

Impact of Dental Anxiety Coping Module on Children with Dental Anxiety

The Impact of Dental Anxiety Coping Module on Children with Dental Anxiety: a Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Malaya · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the Dental Anxiety Coping Module (DACM) in children with dental anxiety. The main questions to answer are: 1. Will the Dental Anxiety Coping Module has any effect on dental anxiety in primary school children based on MY-ACDAS and HRV-Biofeedback? 2. Is there any difference in dental anxiety between control and intervention group on baseline and post-test measured with MY-ACDAS? 3. Is there any difference in dental anxiety between control and intervention group on baseline, during and post-test measured with and HRV-Biofeedback?

Detailed description

Dental Anxiety Coping Module (DACM) is a combination of Dental Tour and Expressive Art Therapy. Participants will be randomised into 2 groups, Control group and Intervention group (with DACM). Control group will have dental procedure without any intervention. While the Intervention group will start with dental tour where they will be shown around the dental clinic followed by Expressive Art Therapy where they will have collage and finger painting done. After DACM, participants will continue with the same dental procedure as the control group.

Conditions

• Dental Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Dental Anxiety Coping Module	Dental tour where participants will be introduced to the dental clinic setting while Expressive Art Therapy, participants will engage with activity of making collage and finger painting.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-10-10
• Primary completion: 2025-03-04
• Completion: 2025-08-04
• First posted: 2024-07-03
• Last updated: 2024-11-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Malaysia