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

NCT ID: NCT06437249

Last Updated: 2024-05-31

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

74 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-06-30

Study Completion Date

2025-02-28

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Child Dental Anxiety

Keywords

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Parental dental anxiety Child dental anxiety

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility Criteria

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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.
Minimum Eligible Age

6 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

8 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Cairo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Ghadeer Jaafar Ali Jawad

Principal Investigator Ghadeer Jaafar Ali

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Ola Mustafa, professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Cairo University

Locations

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Cairo University

Cairo, Almanial, Egypt

Site Status

Countries

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Egypt

Central Contacts

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Ghadeer Jawad, Master

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 00201220262599

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Rasha l Adel, PHD

Role: primary

References

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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.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 25187737 (View on PubMed)

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.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 31377 (View on PubMed)

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.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 23265158 (View on PubMed)

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;7(9):e08092. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08092. eCollection 2021 Sep.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 34632153 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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children dental anxiety

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id