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

Child Dental Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Children's Dental Anxiety in Relation to Parental Dental Anxiety, Child's Age and Gender and Caries Experience (Cross Sectional Study)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06437249
• Other study ID #: children dental anxiety
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: June 2024
• Est. completion date: February 2025

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: Ghadeer Jawad, Master
• Phone: 00201220262599
• Email: ghadeerja08558[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 74
• Est. completion date: February 2025
• Est. primary completion date: December 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 6 Years to 8 Years

Eligibility

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.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Children with Physical or mental disabilities.

2. Children who refuse to participate.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety Disorders
• Child Dental Anxiety

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Cairo University	Cairo	Almanial

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cairo University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

References & Publications (4)

Aditya PVA, Prasad MG, Nagaradhakrishna A, Raju NS, Babu DN. Comparison of effectiveness of three distraction techniques to allay dental anxiety during inferior alveolar nerve block in children: A randomized controlled clinical trial. Heliyon. 2021 Sep 29 — View Citation

Al-Namankany A, Ashley P, Petrie A. The development of a dental anxiety scale with a cognitive component for children and adolescents. Pediatr Dent. 2012 Nov-Dec;34(7):e219-24. — View Citation

Corah NL, Gale EN, Illig SJ. Assessment of a dental anxiety scale. J Am Dent Assoc. 1978 Nov;97(5):816-9. doi: 10.14219/jada.archive.1978.0394. — View Citation

Coric A, Banozic A, Klaric M, Vukojevic K, Puljak L. Dental fear and anxiety in older children: an association with parental dental anxiety and effective pain coping strategies. J Pain Res. 2014 Aug 20;7:515-21. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S67692. eCollection 2014. — View Citation

Outcome

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