Validation of Child Drawing Hospital Scale (CD: H) and the Place of the Drawing in the Evaluation of Dental Anxiety

Dental Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Validation of Child Drawing Hospital Scale (CD: H) and the Place of the Drawing in the Evaluation of Dental Anxiety

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05236101
• Other study ID #: 17-KAEK-195
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 20, 2018
• Est. completion date: May 10, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: February 2022
• Source: Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Objectives: Our study aimed to perform a Turkish validation study of the Child Drawing:

Hospital (CD:H) Scale and evaluate the dental anxiety and pain experienced during the treatment by drawing.

Study Design: Pediatric patients between the ages of 4-13 who applied to the Pediatric Dentistry Department between 2018-2020 were included in the study. Following the translation of the CD:H Scale into Turkish and linguistic-cultural validation, the behaviors of pediatric patients during treatment were evaluated with the Frankl Behavior Rating Scale, the pain they experienced during treatment with the Wong- Baker Face Rating Scale, and their anxiety levels were evaluated with the pictures drawn by the patients at the end of the treatment. The data were analyzed with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences v23, and the significance level was taken as p <0.05.

Results: Within the scope of the scale's reliability-validity study, the Intra-Class Correlation Coefficient (ICC) was evaluated with test-retest consistency. For section A,B,C and total score reliability was found to be positive and strong level correlation. Dental anxiety of boys was higher than girls.

Conclusions: The Turkish version of the CD:H Scale is a reliable and valid scale that can be used to evaluate the dental anxiety of Turkish pediatric patients.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 235
• Est. completion date: May 10, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: August 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 4 Years to 13 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have toothache and who have undergone dental treatment (filling and root canal treatment)

• Patients with deep dentin caries who need local anesthesia

• Children between the ages of 4-13

• Patients who are willing to paint and understand commands

• Patients without any mental or physical disability

• Patients whose parents agreed to participate in the study and signed their consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children not aged 4-13

• Patients with mild to moderate caries who do not need local anesthesia

• Patients who are not willing to paint

• Patients with inadequate hand coordination

• Patients with motor dysfunction

• Children with any systemic illness

• Patients with mental or physical disabilities

• Patients with any syndrome

• Patients with color blindness

• Children whose native language is not Turkish

• Patients whose parents refused to participate in the study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety Disorders
• Dental Anxiety
• Dental Pain
• Validation

Intervention

Behavioral:
• survey research
Children with dental treatment were asked to draw pictures.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Gaziosmanpasa University	Tokat

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Turkish Validation of the Child Drawing Hospital Scale	Using the Child Drawing Hospital Scale, the pictures drawn by the patients were interpreted and scored by two researchers (minimum 15, max 205).	12 week