Virtual Reality Relaxation to Decrease Dental Anxiety

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The aim is to apply short-term virtual reality relaxation to examine if it is effective in reducing pre-operative dental anxiety in primary health care using an RCT.

Detailed Description
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Randomized controlled single-center trial with two parallel arms: Virtual Reality Relaxation (VRR) and Treatment As Usual (TAU) in a public oral health care unit. VRR group receiving a 1-3.5 minute 360° video immersing them in peaceful virtual landscape with audio features and sound supporting the relaxing experience. TAU groups remaining seated for 3 minutes in similar setting.

Official Title
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Virtual Reality Relaxation to Decrease Dental Anxiety in Primary Dental Care

Conditions
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Dental Anxiety

Intervention / Treatment
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* Device: Virtual reality relaxation


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: attending for dental treatment consenting able to complete Finnish questionnaire without assistance age 18 years or older Exclusion Criteria: those not meeting inclusion criteria

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 120 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Interventional Model Description: Randomized controlled single-center trial with two parallel arms
Masking: Quadruple


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Virtual reality relaxation<br>Virtual reality relaxation using virtual landscape and audio features and sound | Device: Virtual reality relaxation<br>* 1-3.5 minute 360° videos<br>|
| No Intervention: Treatment as usual<br>Seated in similar environment as experimental group for same time | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dental anxiety | post-test measured with Modified Dental Anxiety Scale, The measure has five questions, each with five reply alternatives from not anxious to extremely anxious (on a scale 1-5), MDAS sums up to the total scale (range 5-25) which is used as primary outcome. Higher scores indicate higher dental anxiety. | immediately after intervention | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anticipatory dental anxiety and treatment related dental anxiety | The secondary outcome variables are post-test scores for the two sub-scales of the MDAS referred to as 'anticipatory' (MDAS items 1 and 2) and 'treatment' dental anxiety (MDAS items 3, 4 and 5). Scales for sum up as anticipatory anxiety (Items 1 and 2: range 2-10) and treatment anxiety (Items 3-5, range 3-15). Higher scores indicate higher dental anxiety | immediately after intervention | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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dental anxiety, virtual reality