- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03461016
Smartphone-Based Exposure Treatment for Dental Anxiety
Randomized Clinical Trial of Smartphone-Based Exposure of Dental Anxiety
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
- Recruitment efforts will be made in the community via advertisements and online advertisements (e.g., Craigslist, Facebook).
- Prospective participants will contact the investigators via email or by calling the study phone number listed on the advertisements.
- Once a participant indicates interest by contacting study personnel, a 5-minute screening interview will be conducted with the prospective participant using the screening questionnaire to ensure eligibility criteria are met. For those who do not qualify or agree to participate, the age and reason for non-qualification or declination to participate will be recorded; any other data will be destroyed by shredding or electronic shredding. For those who do qualify, name and contact information will be kept confidential and maintained in a locked room.
- After written agreement to enlist in the study, participants are randomly assigned to group (i.e., treatment or control) by previously prepared sealed opaque envelopes.
- Participants will complete the demographic questionnaire, the Dental Fear Survey, and the investigator will complete the specific phobia section of the ADIS-5 with the participant.
Then a Behavioral Avoidance Task will be conducted with the participants
- One-minute baseline, in which the participant sat quietly.
- Then nine dental-related steps will be completed each lasted 30 seconds, and a SUDS rating was collected at each step.
After completing the Behavioral Avoidance Task, the investigator provides a 15-minute demonstration to the participants.
- The control group watched a video on their smartphone about smartphone capabilities as an attention control.
- The treatment group was shown how to conduct self-directed exposure therapy and rate SUDS on their smartphone.
i. The video is a typical preventive visit to the dentist, including walking into the dental office, being called back for treatment by the dental assistant, sitting in the dental chair, and seeing the hygienist perform a teeth cleaning.
ii. The video is presented in a first and third person perspective, and the order is randomly assigned (e.g., view the first person perspective video during week 1 of treatment and then third person perspective during week 2 of treatment).
Researcher will model how to rate SUDS prior to watching the exposure video, how to access the exposure video, how to rate actual SUDS experienced during the video, and how to either continue to the next video or stop the exposure session.
- Participants are advised that watching the exposure video three times per day is the ideal, which may match the amount of exposure in a typical 50-minute treatment session.
- One time per day was the suggested minimum, and five times per day was the suggested maximum.
An email will be sent to participants in the treatment group daily to remind them to conduct the exposure session over the two weeks of treatment.
- Participants follow the link each day with their smartphones. Before each exposure video, participants rate expected distress on the SUDS. Then asked to watch a video depicting dental care-related material. After viewing the exposure video, participants rated actual distress experienced on the SUDS.
- The participants then are immediately prompted to watch the video again. If the participant chooses to watch the video again, the participant will do the same procedure of pre-rating anxiety, watching the video, and post-rating anxiety.
- Finally, participants are prompted to complete the procedure a third time. After completing the procedure three times, the participants are no longer prompted, however, they had the ability to complete the procedure up to two more times if they so desired.
One week after the pre-assessment, participants are contacted via telephone by the investigator to complete measures and schedule the post-assessment session.
- Participants in the control condition will complete the Dental Fear Survey
- Participants in the treatment condition will complete the Dental Fear Survey and the IGroup Presence Questionnaire.
Participants return for the post-assessment session at least two-weeks after the pre-assessment to complete questionnaires and conduct the Behavioral Avoidance Task again.
- Participants in the control condition will complete the Dental Fear Survey
- Participants in the treatment condition will complete the Dental Fear Survey, IGroup Presence Questionnaire, and Acceptance and Acceptability Rating Profile.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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West Virginia
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Morgantown, West Virginia, United States, 26505
- West Virginia University
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- fluency in the English language
- being 18 years of age or older
- own or have access to a smartphone
- have an e-mail account
Exclusion Criteria:
- Reporting a low level of discomfort with dental-related care (i.e., less than a rating of "somewhat" on a single-item dental fear question)
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Smartphone-Based Exposure Therapy
Participants assigned to the Smartphone-Based Exposure Therapy group will receive two weeks of exposure therapy via their smartphone.
Participants will have the opportunity to receive up to 50 minutes of exposure video intervention daily for the two weeks.
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"Exposure therapy is a form of behavior therapy that is widely used to treat anxiety disorders, including specific phobia.
It involves systematic and repeated confrontation with a feared stimulus.
It works by (a) implosive therapy, habituation, in which repeated exposure reduces anxiety over time by a process of extinction; (b) disconfirming fearful predictions; and (c) increasing feelings of self-efficacy and mastery.
In vivo exposure [is] a type of exposure therapy, generally used for treating individuals with phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other anxiety disorders, in which the client directly experiences anxiety-provoking situations or stimuli in real-world conditions."
(VandenBos, 2015)
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No Intervention: Waitlist Control
Participants who have been randomly assigned to participate in the Waitlist Control group will not receive treatment; however, after the two weeks of no intervention, participants in this condition will be offered the same treatment as the treatment condition.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Dental Fear Survey (scale 20-item)
Time Frame: Change from Baseline to 14 days
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Participant self-report of dental care-related fear and anxiety, range of 20-100
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Change from Baseline to 14 days
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Subjective Units of Distress (scale 1-item)
Time Frame: Change from Baseline to 14 days
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Participant self-report of Anxiety, scale of 0-100
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Change from Baseline to 14 days
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Acceptability (scale 8-item)
Time Frame: 14 days
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Participant self-report of the acceptability of treatment, range of 1-48
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14 days
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Behavioral Avoidance Task behavior
Time Frame: Change from Baseline to 14 days
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Nine steps of a simulated a dental examination
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Change from Baseline to 14 days
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Daneil W McNeil, PhD, West Virginia University
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- VandenBos, G. R. (Ed.) (2015). APA dictionary of psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 1506718933
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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