Virtual Reality Used During Tooth Extraction and Extirpation Treatment

The Effect of Virtual Reality Glasses Used During Tooth Extraction and Extirpation Treatment Under Local Anesthesia on Anxiety and Fear in 7-10 Years Old Children

This study carriy out to evaluate the effect of virtual reality glasses used during tooth extraction and extirpation treatment under local anesthesia on anxiety and fear in children aged 7-10 years.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Tooth Disease; Anxiety and Fear
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: virtual reality glasses used during tooth extraction and extirpation treatment

Detailed Description

Aims and Objectives: Virtual reality glasses can be used as a distraction method in dental practices for children. This study carriy out to evaluate the effect of virtual reality glasses used during tooth extraction and extirpation treatment under local anesthesia on anxiety and fear in children aged 7-10 years.

Design: A randomized controlled experimental study design will use. Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 120 seven to ten-year-old children, including 60 in the experimental group and 60 in the control group, who will receive tooth extraction and extirpation treatment in the pediatric dental clinic of an oral and dental health center. Data collection tools included a Child and Family Information Form, the Children's Fear Scale, and the Child Anxiety Scale-State. During the procedure, the children in the experimental group will watch a video that they chose through virtual reality glasses. No intervention will apply to the control group. Data will analyz using the Chi-square test, t-test, Shapiro-Wilk, mean, and percentage distributions.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 120
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Hakkari, Turkey
    • Hakkari University
  • Merkez
    • Hakkari, Merkez, Turkey
      • Hakkari University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children who will between the ages of 7-10,
• Children who have Tooth Extraction
• Children who have Extirpation Treatment
• Have no cognitive development problems,

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children who will not want to participate in the study,
• Leave the research during the study,
• Have an audio-visual disorder that could prevent the use of virtual glasses.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control; No intervention
Experimental: Experimantal; The children will ask to choose a three-dimensional cartoon from the list to watch during the procedure, it will run, the mobile phone will placed into the virtual reality glasses, and the children wear the VR glasses and start watching the cartoon. During the procedure, the children's parents and the researcher will present, and the children watch the cartoon through virtual reality glasses. After the procedure, the virtual reality glasses will removed, and ten minutes after the procedure will completed, the CFS and the CAS-S will apply as a post-test.	Behavioral: virtual reality glasses used during tooth extraction and extirpation treatment; The effect of virtual reality glasses used during tooth extraction and extirpation treatment under local anesthesia on anxiety and fear in 7-10 years old children

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Anxiety Means	Anxiety score will be measured with the Child Fear and Anxiety Scale. The lowest score from the scale can be 0 and the highest score can be 10. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the child's anxiety increases. In this study, if children get high scores from the anxiety section of the scale, it will be determined that they have high procedural anxiety. Getting a low score from the scale will indicate that their anxiety about the procedure is low.	1-4 Weeks
Fear Means	Fear score will be measured with the Children's fear and anxiety scale. The lowest score from the scale can be 0 and the highest score can be 10. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the child's fear increases. In this study, if children score high on the fear section of the scale, it will be determined that their fear of the procedure is high. A low score on the scale will indicate that fears about the procedure are low.	1-4 Weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Murat Bektaş
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Dilek Demir, PhD, Hakkari University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 1, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): September 30, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 29, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 11, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): March 18, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 20, 2025
• Last Verified: March 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Child; Anxiety; Nursing; virtual reality; fear; Tooth extraction; Extirpation
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Stomatognathic Diseases; Mental Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; Tooth Diseases
• Other Study ID Numbers: DokuzEU-1

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: There is a plan to make IPD and related data dictionaries available. The data will be shared anonymously if the justification is deemed appropriate.
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: When study will finish, study protocol will share
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: It will be shared by the authors.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL

Drug and device information, study documents

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