Virtual Reality Distraction During Dental Local Anesthesia Among Children

King Abdulaziz University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Anxiety; Dental Fear

Treatments: Other: TV Screen Distraction; Other: Virtual Reality Distraction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04483336

07072020

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the effect of virtual reality (VR) distraction on anxiety and pain during buccal infiltration anesthesia (BIA) in pediatric patients.

Full description

Design and Participants: This randomized clinical trial was conducted including healthy, and cooperative 6-12-year-old children, with no known allergy and/or sensitivity to local anesthesia who are currently in need of nonemergency dental treatment under local anesthetic infiltration by one of the postgraduate or interns at the pediatric dentistry students, were eligible for the study. Patients with history of epilepsy and anxiety disorder were excluded from the study

Methods and Material: In the test group, subjects received BIA while being distracted using VR goggles; in the control group, subjects watched a cartoon video on a regular screen. Subjects' heart rate (HR) was measured at baseline and at four different timepoints during BIA administration to assess anxiety. The face, legs, activity, cry, consolability (FLACC) Behavioral Pain Assessment Scale was scored by two calibrated investigators to assess pain. After BIA, subjects rated their pain using the Arabic version of Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy
• 6-12-year-old children
• Cooperative during dental treatments
• In need of nonemergency dental treatment under local anesthetic infiltration

Exclusion criteria

• Allergy and/or sensitivity to local anesthesia
• Epilepsy
• Anxiety Disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual reality Distraction.

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects watched a video cartoon using virtual reality goggles as a distraction technique during the administration of local anesthesia.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Reality Distraction

TV screen Distraction

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects watched a video cartoon on a regular TV screen as a distraction technique during the administration of local anesthesia.

Treatment:

Other: TV Screen Distraction