The Association Between Parental Anxiety and Child Behavior.

The Association Between Parental Anxiety and Child Behavior During Simple Restorative Treatment: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Parents' dental anxiety is demonstrated as a significant indicator for children's dental anxiety and parents play a key role in children's anxiety and fear development.

Studies have shown that parents who are fearful and anxious about dental treatments are associated with an increase in the occurrence of caries disease in their children, since they are more resistant to accompany their children to the dentist.

People with a high level of dental anxiety, both children and adults, can be difficult to treat, take longer, and have behavioral issues, all of which can lead to a stressful and unpleasant experience for both the patient and the dental practitioner

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Parental Anxiety,Child Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: Simple restorative treatment

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 158

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 4 years to 6 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Children and parents attending to diagnosis clinics in Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Egypt.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children, age ranging from 4 to 6 years old, of both sexes, have simple Occlusal cavities attending the pediatric dental clinic.
• Parents of both genders

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children who do not have the cognition to respond to the anxiety test or are not authorized by parents and medically compromised children.
• Parents who could not respond to the research tools.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Other
• Time Perspectives: Cross-Sectional

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Prevalence of Parental anxiety	The Modified Dental Anxiety Scale Scores (5-25)	baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Prevalence of Child Anxiety	The Modified Venham Picture Test Scores (0- 8)	Baseline
Child behavior in dental care	Venham Behavior Rating Scale.	During the procedure

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Cairo University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): June 24, 2022
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): October 24, 2022
• Study Completion (Anticipated): March 24, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 20, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 20, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): February 1, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 6, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 4, 2022
• Last Verified: April 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Anxiety Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: Child Behavior

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No