Children's Dental Anxiety in Relation to Parental Dental Anxiety, Child's Age and Gender and Caries Experience

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• Conditions: Child Dental Anxiety

• Registration Number: NCT06437249
• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University

Brief Summary

Determine the relation of of Children's dental anxiety to Parental Dental anxiety, child's age and gender and caries experience will be obtained through written questionnaires (ACDAS) and (CDAS) to the child and parents of children aged 6-8 years old in the clinic.

Detailed Description

1. Soft copies of the Abeer children dental anxiety SCALE (ACDAS) Questionnaire and Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (CDAS) Questionnaire.

2. The child's age and gender will be recorded first.

3. Level of anxiety will be recorded by using Heart rate using fingertip pulse oximeter.

4. Dental caries experiences will record by using Dental caries indices (DMF and def)

5. Child dental anxiety will be evaluated from (ACDAS) Questionnaire: The first part is child self-report part, the operator will be answered by ticking the box that corresponds to child dental anxiety, 1 (happy), 2 (Ok), 3 (Scared). The second part about the cognitive part with five questions: three of them answered with (Yes, No) and the other two questions answered with score, 1 (happy), 2 (Ok), 3 (Scared)

6. Parents dental anxiety will be evaluated from (CDAS) Questionnaire. the parents will answer by ticking the answer. The final scores, \>9 (Mild anxiety), 9-12 (Moderate anxiety), 13-14 (High anxiety), 15-20 (Sever anxiety).

7. Results will be analyzed by the statistician.

8. Data handling will be supervised by the supervisors.

Basic Information
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Study & Design
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Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-05
• Study First Submitted: 2024-05-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-05-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-05-30
• Study First Posted: 2024-05-31
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-31
• Study Start: 2024-06
• Primary Completion: 2024-12
• Study Completion: 2025-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 74

Inclusion Criteria

1. Children range in age from 6-8 years old.
2. First dental visit.
3. Accompanied by their parents.
4. Both male and female included.

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Exclusion Criteria

1. Children with Physical or mental disabilities.
2. Children who refuse to participate.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Level of anxiety	Two months	record Heart rate number using fingertip pulse oximeter
Caries experience	Two months	Using dental caries indices ( Decayed Missed Filling and Decayed Exposed to extraction Filling ) in mixed dentition
Child dental anxiety	Two months	Using Abeer children dental anxiety SCALE Questionnaire Score score 1 happy 2 Ok 3 Scared

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Parental dental anxiety	Two months	Using Corah Dental Anxiety Scale Questionnaire Score a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, d = 4, e = 5 Total possible = 20; * \< 9 = mild; * 9 - 12 = moderate anxiety; * 13 - 14 = high anxiety; * 15 - 20 = severe anxiety (or phobia) higher score means worse

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Cairo University; 🇪🇬 Cairo, Almanial, Egypt