Effect of PPE on Children's Fear in Dental Office

Fayoum University

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19; COVID-19 Virus Infection; Infections

Treatments: Device: reusable respirators

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05371561

Fayoum U

Details and patient eligibility

About

the aim of the current study is to compare the effect of conventional facial PPE as 1)goggles + surgical masks, and 2)face shields + surgical masks versus 3)half-face and 4)full-face reusable respirators; on preoperative child's fear in the dental office.

Full description

Each patient meeting the inclusion criteria and assigned to a specific study group will enter the clinic for dental examination. The examining dentist, wearing the selected PPE will communicate with patient and parent, taking personal, previous and current history, and carrying out simple examination not involving the use of sharp instruments, provoking pain or investigations as radiographs. The process should take from three to five minutes. Then, the child will be escorted to another room to meet a blinded accessor, where he assesses the child's anxiety using the Arabic version of children's fear survey schedule-dental subscale CFSS-DS.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Six to ten-year-old patients

Exclusion criteria

• emergency patients
• patients who have systemic, mental or psychological conditions as indicated by their medical history,

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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52 participants in 4 patient groups

Goggles + surgical mask

Active Comparator group

Description:

Dentist wearing Goggles + surgical mask will examin the patient

Treatment:

Device: reusable respirators

Face shield+ surgical mask

Active Comparator group

Description:

Dentist wearing Face shield+ surgical mask will examin the patient

Treatment:

Device: reusable respirators

Half face reusable respirator+ Filter

Experimental group

Description:

Dentist wearing Half face reusable respirator+ Filter will examin the patient

Treatment:

Device: reusable respirators

Full face reusable respirator+ Filter

Experimental group

Description:

Dentist wearing Full face reusable respirator+ Filter will examin the patient

Treatment:

Device: reusable respirators