Official Title Evaluating the Effect of Dentist's Attire on Children's Acceptance of Dental Treatment Including Local Anesthesia
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Behavior, Child
- Sponsor
- Damascus University
- Enrollment
- 120
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Pain levels
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of friendly attire on dental anxiety among children visiting dental office in comparison with conventional attire. All of the children who will be experienced maxillary dental anesthesia with/without distraction will be assessed by using a combination of measures: Wong-Baker faces and the Children's Fear Scale (self-report), heart pulse rate, and behavior (using Anxiety levels using Face - Legs - Activity - Cry - Consolability "FLACC" scale "external evaluator") Acceptance will be measured using a two-point Likert scale.
Detailed Description
This study will evaluate the effect of dental attire on children's acceptance of different dental treatments that include dental anesthesia. pain and anxiety will be evaluated during buccal and palatal infiltration using five behavioral scales, Wong-Baker pain scale, Children's Fear Scale and Children's Anxiety Questionnaire (self-report), pulse rate (physiological) and behavior (using FLACC behavior rating scale "external evaluator". Heart pulse rate measurement will be recorded firstly when the patient is seated comfortably in the reception area, on dental chair prior to the injection, and finally after the procedure is done and the child patients will be asked to choose a face that describe their status from one of both Wong Baker faces scale, Children's Fear Scale and Children's Anxiety Questionnaire. Body responses of all child patients will be recorded during the whole procedure and then will be evaluated by an external evaluator to determine the children behavioral score according to FLACC scale.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Age between 6 and 10 years.
- •No previous dental experience.
- •Definitely positive or positive according to Frank scale.
- •Need of maxillary anesthesia for any dental treatment.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Previous dental experience
- •Systematic or mental disorders.
- •Definitely negative or negative according to Frankel scale
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Pain levels
Time Frame: 5 minutes following the dental local anesthesia.
Pain levels will be measured by using a self-reported simplified Wong-Baker faces pain scale: 0 no Hurt - 1 Hurts little Bit - 2 Hurts little More - 3 Hurts Even More - 4 Hurts Whole Lot - 5 Hurts Worst
Anxiety levels
Time Frame: 5 minutes following the meeting with the dentist in the reception area, and 5 minutes after the patient is seated comfortably on the dental chair
This will be evaluated using Children's Fear Scale (0 indicating 'no anxiety' and 4 indicating 'extreme anxiety') and Children Anxiety Questionnaire (self-report) (4 indicating 'no anxiety' and 16 indicating 'extreme anxiety').
Pulse rate
Time Frame: (1) five minutes after the patient is seated comfortably in the reception area, (2) five minutes after the patient is seated comfortably on the dental chair, (3) five minutes following the injection of the anesthetic drug
Pulse rate (the number of times your heart beats each minute bpm will be evaluated using Finger Pulse Oximeter.