Children's Drawing as a Projective Tool to Assess Dental Anxiety

April 12, 2024 updated by: Weam Sayed Abd El Mautie, Cairo University

Assessment of Dental Anxiety After Children's Drawing as a Projective Tool During Dental Treatment Under Local Anaesthesia

The aim in this study is to compare the results of anxiety measurement of the child using the CD:H scale with the long-used Face,Legs,Activity,Cry and Consolability scale (FLACC scale) and pulse oximeter reading, to see if the drawing alone can be a reliable tool to predict the child's behaviour before the dental procedure.

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Dental anxiety is one of the major problems facing us in pediatric dentistry, the new experience that the child has to go through together with the difficulty for the child to express his exact cause of fear increases the problem.

Research has shown that healthcare providers spend more time communicating with parents than pediatric patients. In a typical medical care visit, less than 20% of the communication engaged pediatric patients, regardless of age. Most decision-making and treatment planning are done by dentists and parents.

Even when the dentist tries to engage the child in the conversation it usually includes the social aspect "his favourite hobby, toys, school topics, etc…" rather than the medical history or treatment decisions so the child is unaccustomed to discussing his dental fears and complaints to the dentist, hence we lose a lot of the child's trust.

Drawing has been used in literature as a psychological method to express one's thoughts and fears and can be analyzed by the healthcare provider to know the deeper thoughts of the child.

Thus, the current study aims to deeply understand the children's point of view towards dental treatment and use the drawings as a projective tool to assess the dental anxiety in those children by simple index and defined scores that every dentist could learn and apply.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Estimated)

138

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Contact Backup

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sampling Method

Probability Sample

Study Population

children with previous dental experience aging from 6 to 12 years and have one or more teeth indicated for simple extraction.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Children aged from 6 to 12 years.
  • Children with past dental experience.
  • One or more primary teeth indicated for simple extraction procedure.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients lacking cooperative behavior (very young age and patients with certain medical or psychological disorders) according to Wright's classification.
  • Refusal of participation.
  • Lack of informed consent by the child's parents.
  • If the child shows any signs of disinterest in drawing.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
FLAAC behavioral scale
Time Frame: 6 months
scale to measure the level of anxiety for children during dental visit
6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Cairo University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Weam S Ayoub, MsC, Cairo University

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

April 30, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

December 30, 2024

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 30, 2025

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 12, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 12, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

April 16, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 16, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 12, 2024

Last Verified

April 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CUP3222024

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

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