Virtual Reality Relaxation to Decrease Dental Anxiety

Dental Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Virtual Reality Relaxation to Decrease Dental Anxiety in Primary Dental Care

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03993080
• Other study ID #: HEL 2018-008940
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 15, 2018
• Est. completion date: February 27, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: June 2019
• Source: University of Turku
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim is to apply short-term virtual reality relaxation to examine if it is effective in reducing pre-operative dental anxiety in primary health care using an RCT.

Description:

Randomized controlled single-center trial with two parallel arms: Virtual Reality Relaxation (VRR) and Treatment As Usual (TAU) in a public oral health care unit. VRR group receiving a 1-3.5 minute 360° video immersing them in peaceful virtual landscape with audio features and sound supporting the relaxing experience. TAU groups remaining seated for 3 minutes in similar setting.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 277
• Est. completion date: February 27, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: February 27, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 120 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• attending for dental treatment

• consenting

• able to complete Finnish questionnaire without assistance

• age 18 years or older

Exclusion Criteria:

• those not meeting inclusion criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety Disorders
• Dental Anxiety

Intervention

Device:
• Virtual reality relaxation
1-3.5 minute 360° videos

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Finland	University of Turku	Turku

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Turku	City of Helsinki, University of Dundee, University of St Andrews

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Finland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Dental anxiety	post-test measured with Modified Dental Anxiety Scale, The measure has five questions, each with five reply alternatives from not anxious to extremely anxious (on a scale 1-5), MDAS sums up to the total scale (range 5-25) which is used as primary outcome. Higher scores indicate higher dental anxiety.	immediately after intervention
Secondary	Anticipatory dental anxiety and treatment related dental anxiety	The secondary outcome variables are post-test scores for the two sub-scales of the MDAS referred to as 'anticipatory' (MDAS items 1 and 2) and 'treatment' dental anxiety (MDAS items 3, 4 and 5). Scales for sum up as anticipatory anxiety (Items 1 and 2: range 2-10) and treatment anxiety (Items 3-5, range 3-15). Higher scores indicate higher dental anxiety	immediately after intervention