Evaluation of Custom-designed Dental Storybook on the Dental Anxiety and Behavior of Children

October University for Modern Sciences and Arts

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Dental Anxiety; Child Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: tell show do behavior management technique; Behavioral: a costume-designed storybook

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06711367

REC-D

Details and patient eligibility

About

Conventional behavior management techniques, namely: verbal communication and tell-show-do were used in the operatory for the participating children (Group A). The children allocated in intervention group (Group B) received a costume-designed storybook explaining the diagnosis and procedures of occlusal composite restoration

Enrollment: 48 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 8 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • Healthy children and children/parents can read and understand Arabic.

  • The child needs an occlusal composite restoration.

Exclusion criteria

• Children with special needs; children with a complete audiovisual impairment; children with
• Learning difficulties or mental retardation.
• Children who are not Arabic speakers.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

tell show do behavior management technique

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: tell show do behavior management technique

a costume-designed dental storybook

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: a costume-designed storybook