Diagnostic Interview and One-session Cognitive Therapy in Treatment of Dental Fear

University of Eastern Finland

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Fear

Treatments: Behavioral: Combined interview and treatment.; Behavioral: Diagnostic interview

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02919241

UKuopio 001/2016

Details and patient eligibility

About

Clinical trial of an application of cognitive behavioural one-session therapy method with patients who have severe or average dental fear/anxiety measured by Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS). The intervention consists of two different parts: a diagnostic interview and one-session treatment of dental care. The method is based on One-Session Therapy manual (Öst & Skaret, 2013). 30 minimum 18 years old adults takes part to the study. They comes from three different places,primary care clinic, community dental care and dentist´s teaching clinic.

Full description

Purpose is to compare diagnostic interview (n=20) to diagnostic interview and one-session treatment of dental care (n=10). Partners come from three different places, 10 from each: public and private dental care and dental school. Participants from dental school take part to one-session treatment. All participants have normal dental care before final interview. Hypotheses is that dental fear/anxiety will decrease one category (5 points) when measured by Modified dental anxiety scale (MDAS) before the intervention and after normal dental care. Visual Analogue Scale is used to measure the strength of unpleasant feeling before and after intervention in both groups.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• MDAS 13 or over, dental care in normal circumstances doesn´t work, motivation to treat dental fear, minimum 18 year

Exclusion criteria

• Mental disorder, dementia, pregnancy, acute state of somatic illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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29 participants in 2 patient groups

Diagnostic interview

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention for this group include diagnostic interview. Oral health Impact Profile (OHIP 14) and Spielberg State and Trait Anxiety (STAI-1) questionnaires and behaviour analyses are used in diagnostic interview.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Diagnostic interview

Combined interview and treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention for this group include both the diagnostic interview and one session treatment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Diagnostic interview

Behavioral: Combined interview and treatment.