Diagnostic Interview and One-session Cognitive Therapy in Treatment of Dental Fear

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Dental Fear
• Interventions: Behavioral: Diagnostic interview; Behavioral: Combined interview and treatment.

• Registration Number: NCT02919241
• Lead Sponsor: University of Eastern Finland

Brief Summary

Clinical trial of an application of cognitive behavioural one-session therapy method with patients who have severe or average dental fear/anxiety measured by Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS). The intervention consists of two different parts: a diagnostic interview and one-session treatment of dental care. The method is based on One-Session Therapy manual (Öst \& Skaret, 2013). 30 minimum 18 years old adults takes part to the study. They comes from three different places,primary care clinic, community dental care and dentist´s teaching clinic.

Detailed Description

Purpose is to compare diagnostic interview (n=20) to diagnostic interview and one-session treatment of dental care (n=10). Partners come from three different places, 10 from each: public and private dental care and dental school. Participants from dental school take part to one-session treatment. All participants have normal dental care before final interview. Hypotheses is that dental fear/anxiety will decrease one category (5 points) when measured by Modified dental anxiety scale (MDAS) before the intervention and after normal dental care. Visual Analogue Scale is used to measure the strength of unpleasant feeling before and after intervention in both groups.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-08
• Study First Submitted: 2016-09-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-09-28
• Study First Posted: 2016-09-29
• Primary Completion: 2020-12-31
• Study Completion: 2020-12-31
• Status Verified: 2021-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-11-10
• Last Update Posted: 2021-11-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 29

Inclusion Criteria

• MDAS 13 or over, dental care in normal circumstances doesn´t work, motivation to treat dental fear, minimum 18 year

Exclusion Criteria

• Mental disorder, dementia, pregnancy, acute state of somatic illness

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Combined interview and treatment	Diagnostic interview	Intervention for this group include both the diagnostic interview and one session treatment.
Combined interview and treatment	Combined interview and treatment.	Intervention for this group include both the diagnostic interview and one session treatment.
Diagnostic interview	Diagnostic interview	Intervention for this group include diagnostic interview. Oral health Impact Profile (OHIP 14) and Spielberg State and Trait Anxiety (STAI-1) questionnaires and behaviour analyses are used in diagnostic interview.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in dental fear	6 months	Change in fear is measured by a questionnaire called Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS). Change in fear is indicated by change in mean value of the MDAS between baseline and follow-up measurement

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Compliance to care	6 months	Compliance to care is indicated if treatment defined before the baseline interview can be wholly executed. If patient interrupt treatment or cannot be executed at all after baseline interview, then compliance is not fulfilled.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Eastern Finland; 🇫🇮 Kuopio, Finland