Dental Anxiety Among Children Pre and Post COVID 19 Pandemic
- Conditions
- Dental Anxiety
- Interventions
- Other: routine dental restorative procedures
- Registration Number
- NCT04815759
- Lead Sponsor
- Hams Hamed Abdelrahman
- Brief Summary
Dental fear and anxiety is a significant issue that affects pediatric patients and creates challenges in oral health management. Considering that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, along with its associated sanitary regime, social distancing measures and nationwide quarantines, could itself induce public fears, including in children, it is of great interest to explore whether this situation and the necessity of reorganizing dental care could potentially affect the emotional state of pediatric patients facing a need for urgent dental intervention
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 82
- parental consent
- no previous dental experience
- medically free children
- children with negative behavior according to Frankl Rating Scale
- children require general anesthesia
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Post pandemic routine dental restorative procedures - Pre pandemic routine dental restorative procedures -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Dental anxiety level through study completion, an average of 3 months Assessment will performed by using Facial image scale (FIS)It consists of 5 faces ranging from very happy to very unhappy.
At the beginning, the 5 faces have been explained to all children and they were asked to point to the face which best describes how he/she felt at the moment
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University
🇪🇬Alexandria, Egypt