A Strategy to Prevent the Recurrence of Dental Disease in Children Receiving Dental Treatment With General Anesthesia

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Caries

Treatments: Behavioral: verbal education, visual aids, and motivational interviewing; Behavioral: verbal education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05212142

HM20023677

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a preventive strategy in increasing return to follow up and recall appointments.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 6 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. parent with child (patient) planned for dental treatment with general anesthesia (GA)
2. parent of a child (patient) age less than six
3. parent of a child (patient) with health status of healthy (American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) I or II).

Exclusion criteria

1. parents/guardians who chose not to participate in the study
2. parents who spoke a language other than English or Spanish
3. Parents of a child (patient) with special health care needs or patients of ASA III or IV status

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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74 participants in 2 patient groups

Traditional intervention: verbal education

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: verbal education

New intervention: verbal education, visual aids, and motivational interviewing

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: verbal education, visual aids, and motivational interviewing