Child Autism
Conditions
Brief summary
There is a need to find an approach that is appropriate for managing children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the dental clinic, to manage their behaviour and decrease their anxiety in this research we will apply our modified dental visual aids and test its effectiveness in managing the behavior of such children during the dental appointment.
Interventions
OTHERModified dental visual aids
Modified Dental visual aids in the form of pictures created by the main investigator
OTHERRegular dental visual aids
Regular dental visual aids
Sponsors
King Abdulaziz University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
TRIPLE (Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
6 Years to 10 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patient age between 6-10 years. * Child patient has to represent the typical triad symptoms of ASD that include: social interaction deficits, communication impairment, language impairment and rigidity of interests. * Child patient with ASD diagnosis confirmed in the patient's files according to the DSM-V criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). * Child patient with mild to moderate ASD according to the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) (Schopler et al., 1998).
Exclusion criteria
* Patient age younger than 6 years and older than 10 years. * Child patient with other congenital anomalies, for example, Cerebral Palsy or Down Syndrome. * Child patient with previous dental experience. * Child patient with severe ASD according to the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) (Schopler et al., 1998).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Plaque Index Scoring | four weeks | plaque index scoring (Silness and Löe, 1964) |
| Anxiety Scale for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASC-ASD) | four weeks | This scale contains twenty-four self-report questions that inquire about anxiety, it contains 4 sub-scales including: 1. Separation Anxiety (SA). 2. Uncertainty (U). 3. Performance Anxiety (PA). 4. Anxious Arousal (AA). It is a four-point Likert-scale; items in the questionnaire are rated from zero (never) to three (always). Another version of the same scale with twenty-four questions directed to the parents will also be used and it contains a report of their child's symptoms of anxiety, within the same four subscales (Rodgers et al., 2016). |
| The Observational Scale of Behavioral Distress (OSBD) | four weeks | This scale is used to measure the behavioral distress that a child experiences when undergoing a painful procedure. This scale is composed of eight operationally defined behaviors that are indicative of anxiety and/or pain behavior in children. The OSBD is a valid and reliable scale that measures distress in children receiving painful procedures in the medical and dental practice, for example, venipuncture and needle injections (Elliot et al., 1987). |
Countries
Saudi Arabia
Outcome results
None listed