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Music Distraction Strategy in Children Dental Care

NCT02489812 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 34

Last updated 2015-07-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Music plays an important role reassuring helping reduce anxiety. Anxiety can be an interference factor in promoting oral health for children with high levels of anxiety tend to have negative behavior at the dentist. High oxygen levels and heart and respiratory frequencies are associated with high levels of anxiety. The objective of this study was to test the use of music in decreased cardiac and respiratory frequency of treated patients listening to music and being treated without hearing music.

Conditions

  • Children Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Music

This cross over trial aimed to analyze the use of music as a distraction resource during children dental treatment, evaluating their cardiac and respiratory frequency. Thirty-four children took part in this study, 16 boys and 18 girls, from 4 to 6 years old, with no previous dental experience, who had two carious lesions on occlusal surfaces of molars,

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Federal University of Minas Gerais

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Max Age
6 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-31
Primary Completion
2014-10-31
Completion
2015-04-30

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