Assessment of a Ventriloquist Puppet for Reducing Dental Anxiety in Children (Puppets)

Al-Azhar University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Dental Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Ventriloquist Puppet Interaction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07034833

1200/384

Details and patient eligibility

About

thhe goal of this clinical trial is to assess the effect of ventriloquist puppets to reduce the strees accompined by the dental visit in cgilren . The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does the ventriloquist puppet can reduce the stress accompanied by the dental visit for the children ?
• What medical problems do participants have when taking drug ABC? Researchers will compare ventriloquist puppet to a control group (conventional behavior management techniques ) to see if ventriloquist puppet can lower the anxiety or not.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria :

• healthy children with no systemic diseases.
• children require dental intervention

Exclusion Criteria:

• children with bad dental experience
• children require invasive surgical intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

control group: 25 child managed by basic behavior management tecniques

No Intervention group

Description:

this group managed normaly with the basic behavior managment techniques like tell , show , do and others

puppet therapy group: Children allocated to the Ventriloquist Puppet group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Children allocated to the Ventriloquist Puppet group were introduced to a Ventriloquist Puppet inside the clinic and were allowed to play , talk and interact with the puppet for five to 10 min

Treatment:

Behavioral: Ventriloquist Puppet Interaction