Children and Adolescents With Dental Anxiety - Randomized Controlled Study of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Behavioral: Treatment As Usual

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01798355

KIPED20130218

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether cognitive behaviour therapy is effective in the treatment of children and adolescents with dental anxiety. Our hypothesis is that children and adolescents who have been offered CBT shows significant better performance on outcome measures compared with patients in control group who have received treatment as usual.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The patient and parents agree to participate in the research project
• A primary diagnosis of specific phobia (dental anxiety or needle phobia) can be established according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th. Edition.

Exclusion criteria

• The diagnostic interview shows that other psychiatric or developmentally related diagnoses should be consider as the primary diagnosis
• The patient undergoing psychiatric examination and/or psychotherapy
• The patient has no dental treatment needs or the dental treatment needs are of an emergency nature.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Treatment as usual

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment As Usual