Evaluation of the effectiveness, suitability for daily use and acceptance of Virtual Reality during dental treatment.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- F40.2Specific (isolated) phobias
- Registration Number
- DRKS00032289
- Lead Sponsor
- Poliklinik für Zahnärztliche Prothetik
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Inclusion Criteria
Ability of the patient to give informed consent
- Presence of the subject's informed consent
- Need for routine dental treatment of any kind
Exclusion Criteria
- Decision of the patient against the intended dental treatment
- Patient's decision not to participate in the study
- Lack of language skills, psychotic illness, epilepsy, chronic vertigo, or severe visual impairment.
- Presence of low dental treatment anxiety according to the Hierarchical Anxiety Questionnaire (HAF).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcomes are the acceptance of the intervention and its potential effectiveness. It will be evaluated how many patients with dental anxiety will consent to VR application and how many will have dental treatment completed under the proposed VR setting. The potential effectiveness of VR application in reducing anxiety symptoms will be investigated in comparison with distraction using video playback as a control setting.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method As secondary outcomes, side effects of cyber sickness will be assessed, and questions of patient satisfaction and technology acceptance will be investigated. For this purpose, treatment expectation, treatment satisfaction, patient's global impression of change regard-ing the main outcomes as well as experiences of practitioners will be surveyed.