NCT03197129

Waiting Room's Environment and Children Anxiety Prior Dental Treatment

Completed NA Results posted Last updated 5 November 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing sensory adapted waiting room in Dental Anxiety in 122 participants. Completed in 1 May 2019.

Timeline

1 January 2018

Primary endpoint
31 January 2019

1 May 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Hadassah Medical Organization
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	122
Start date	1 January 2018
Primary completion	31 January 2019
Estimated completion	1 May 2019
Sites	1 location across Israel

Drugs / interventions tested

• sensory adapted waiting room

Conditions studied

• Dental Anxiety — all drugs for Dental Anxiety →

Sponsor

Hadassah Medical Organization — full company profile →

Who can join

Adults 3 to 10, any sex, with Dental Anxiety. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Results — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Per-arm endpoint measurements with 95% confidence intervals where reported. Source: trial results section.

Dental Anxiety Primary · Dental anxiety will be assessed while waiting in the waiting room, up to 1 hour

According to Venham Picture Test (VPT) scale. A measure of anxiety is obtained by totaling the number of times the child picks the figure depicting the anxious state :minimum score 0; maximum score 8. A score of 0 means low anxiety, a score of 8 means high anxiety.

Group	Value	95% CI
SADE Waiting Room	1.71	± 2.27
Traditional Waiting Room	2	± 2.28

Sponsor's own description

The amount of time the patient has spent awaiting treatment and the nature of the waiting room environment influence the anxiety level prior treatment. The objective of the present study is to compare the effect of waiting room's environment on the levels of anxiety experienced by children, in sensory adapted dental environment (SADE) and traditional waiting rooms. A parallel randomized trial. The participants will be randomly assigned to one type of waiting room. The participants will be asked to answer Venham Picture Test (VPT) scale while waiting in the waiting room just before entering the clinic.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. The effect of the waiting room's environment on level of anxiety experienced by children prior to dental treatment: a case control study.
   Fux-Noy A, Zohar M, Herzog K, Shmueli A, et al · · 2019 · cited 17× · PMID 31888588 · DOI 10.1186/s12903-019-0995-y
2. The effect of the waiting room's environment on level of anxiety experienced by children prior to dental treatment: a case control study
   Fux-Noy A, Zohar M, Herzog K, Shmueli A, et al · · 2019 · DOI 10.21203/rs.2.11573/v2