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Evaluation of Custom-designed Dental Storybook on the Dental Anxiety and Behavior of Children

ConditionsChild BehaviorDental Anxiety
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age4-8
SponsorOctober University for Modern Sciences and Arts

About this trial

Conventional behavior management techniques, namely: verbal communication and tell-show-do were used in the operatory for the participating children (Group A). The children allocated in intervention group (Group B) received a costume-designed storybook explaining the diagnosis and procedures of occlusal composite restoration

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

• Healthy children and children/parents can read and understand Arabic.

The child needs an occlusal composite restoration.

Disqualifiers

Children with special needs; children with a complete audiovisual impairment; children with

Learning difficulties or mental retardation.

Children who are not Arabic speakers.

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • tell show do behavior management technique

    Behavioral

    tell show do behavior management technique about the the diagnosis and procedures of dental restoration

  • a costume-designed storybook

    Behavioral

    a costume-designed storybook explaining the diagnosis and procedures of dental restoration

Treatment groups

48 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: tell show do behavior management techniqueActive comparator 1 intervention
Group B: a costume-designed dental storybookExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Child anxiety

Venham anxiety scale (score from 1-8)

Time frame
through study completion, an average of four months

Secondary outcomes

1

Pulse rate

Pulse oximeter

Time frame
through study completion, an average of four months

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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October University for Modern Sciences and Arts

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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