Clinical trial NCT06437249: Children's Dental Anxiety in Relation to Parental Dental Anxiety, Child's Age and Gender and Caries Experience
Official title: Children's Dental Anxiety in Relation to Parental Dental Anxiety, Child's Age and Gender and Caries Experience (Cross Sectional Study)
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Conditions: Child Dental Anxiety
Keywords: Parental dental anxiety
Child dental anxiety
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-05-31
Enrollment: 74
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 8
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
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.

Brief summary: 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.

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, \&amp;gt;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.

Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Child dental anxiety
timeFrame: Two months
measure: Level of anxiety
timeFrame: Two months
measure: Caries experience
timeFrame: Two months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Parental dental anxiety
timeFrame: Two months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cairo
country: Egypt
facility: Cairo University
state: Almanial
Study officials:
affiliation: Cairo University
name: Ola Mustafa, professor
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
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