Dentist-Patient Communication on Dental Anxiety Using the Social Media and Timing in Communication: A Double-blinded Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 143
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Visual analog scale (VAS)
研究概览
简要总结
Scales application one week before and one week after impacted tooth extraction.
详细描述
The purpose of the present study was to assess the effects of dentist-patient communication via social media on dental anxiety, and second, to evaluate the appropriate timing of such communications.
Instagram's quick replies system was used to answer patients' questions to alleviate dental anxiety for patients undergoing impacted mandibular third-molar extraction under local anesthesia. Patients were assigned randomly into four groups according to timing of such communications: Communication before operation (n=36), Communication after operation (n=35), Communication before and after operation (n=36), and a control group who received no communication on social media (n=36). Dental anxiety was evaluated one week before and after the surgical operation using recognized assessment scales-the Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Modified Dental Anxiety Scale and a visual analog scale.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Control
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 22 Years 至 36 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Must be able to use the Instagram platform. I
- •Clinicial diagnosis of mesioangular impacted lower third molar according to the classification of Winter and the Pell and Gregory classification (2 or 3/B).
排除标准
- •Patients who previously obtained information from social media
- •Bad dental history
- •Systemic disease
结局指标
主要结局
Visual analog scale (VAS)
时间窗: 2 weeks
The VAS scale was included in the present study to determine how anxious the patients felt according to their own thoughts. Scores range from 0 (no anxiety) to 10 (extreme anxiety).
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Efe Sivrikaya
Assistant Prof.
Karadeniz Technical University