COVID-19, COVID-19 Virus Infection, Infections
Conditions
Keywords
PPE, Dentist attire, Child behavior, dental fear
Brief summary
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.
Detailed 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.
Interventions
DEVICEreusable respirators
Dentist wearing reusable respirator will examin the patient
Sponsors
Fayoum University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
Participants, legal guardians, and the dentist who carried out the examination were not blinded as it was inapplicable. The accessor and statistician were blinded
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
6 Years to 10 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
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,
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic version of children's fear survey schedule-dental subscale (CFSS-DS) | just after examination | Children's fear survey schedule-dental subscale CFSS-DS is a tool to measure children's anxiety in dental settings. The CFSS-DS consists of 15 items, revolving around dental setting and procedures, child will answer each item by choosing a rate from a 5-point Likert scale that ranges from 1 ('not afraid at all') to 5 ('very afraid'), the total score should range from 15 to 75 |
Countries
Egypt
Outcome results
None listed