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

Children's Dental Anxiety in Relation to Parental Dental Anxiety, Child's Age and Gender and Caries Experience (Cross Sectional Study)

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Child Dental Anxiety

Detailed Description

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.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Estimated): 74

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Ghadeer Jawad, Master; Phone Number: +97333323874 00201220262599; Email: ghadeerja08558@gmail.com

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Almanial
    • Cairo, Almanial, Egypt, Egypt
      • Cairo University
      • Contact: Rasha l Adel, PHD; Phone Number: 00201111511145; Email: rasha.adel@dentistry.cu.edu.eg

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

1. Gender: Male and Female.

2. Age: 6-8 years old

   • in Pediatric Clinic in Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health Department-faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Egypt.
   • parents will be interviewed by the examiner and the questionnaire will be filled.

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Child dental anxiety	Using Abeer children dental anxiety SCALE Questionnaire Score score 1 happy 2 Ok 3 Scared	Two months
Level of anxiety	record Heart rate number using fingertip pulse oximeter	Two months
Caries experience	Using dental caries indices ( Decayed Missed Filling and Decayed Exposed to extraction Filling ) in mixed dentition	Two months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Parental dental anxiety	Using Corah Dental Anxiety Scale Questionnaire Score a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, d = 4, e = 5 Total possible = 20; < 9 = mild; 9 - 12 = moderate anxiety; 13 - 14 = high anxiety; 15 - 20 = severe anxiety (or phobia) higher score means worse	Two months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Cairo University
• Investigators: Study Director: Ola Mustafa, professor, Cairo University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): June 1, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): February 1, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 21, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 30, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): May 31, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 31, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 30, 2024
• Last Verified: May 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Parental dental anxiety; Child dental anxiety
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Anxiety Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: children dental anxiety

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED
• IPD Plan Description: evaluate the relation between the parental dental anxiety, child age and gender and caries experience on child dental anxiety in a group of Egyptian children.

Drug and device information, study documents

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