Reducing Anxiety in Pediatric Dental Patients Through Passive Music Therapy
Status
Terminated
Conditions
Anxiety, Dental
Treatments
Behavioral: Music
Details and patient eligibility
About
The purpose of this study is to determine if passive music listening decreases anxiety in patients undergoing dental procedures and if the effects of music therapy are influenced by gender, age, and amount or type of dental treatment needed.
Enrollment
72 patients
Sex
All
Ages
9 to 17 years old
Volunteers
No Healthy Volunteers
Inclusion criteria
- American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification System I (ASA I) I and American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification System II (ASA II)
- Patient needs restorative procedure (with or without local anesthesia or nitrous oxide)
- Received previous dental restorative treatment (detected via visual or radiographic evidence of previous restoration - no additional radiographs will be exposed for this study; exposed radiographs will be previously obtained, as needed,for comprehensive or periodic dental reasons)
Exclusion criteria
- Patients with hearing impairments
- Uncooperative patients at examination appointment (detected by Frankl behavior score of 1 or 2)
Trial design
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Randomized
Interventional model
Parallel Assignment
Masking
None (Open label)
72 participants in 2 patient groups
Music Group
Experimental group
Description:
Patients listen to music
Treatment:
Behavioral: Music
No Music group
No Intervention group
Description:
Patients do not listen to music
Trial contacts and locations
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