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Improving Children's Cooperation During Dental Injection

NCT03978390 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2020-07-27

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Summary

This clinical trial aims to investigate how to increase children cooperation in dental settings using ideas adopted from psychology to make an effective interdisciplinary approach. We want to test how showing images of mainstream superheroes such as Superman, Batman, etc. can prepare children, 6-12 years old, to behave desirably during the dental injection. Also, new modification will be applied to providing awards to children by telling them that they can keep the rewards they receive before starting the procedure only if they behave accordingly during the treatment. Moreover, it will be shown that if children's baseline psychological characteristic, age, gender, and family income affect their cooperation in the dental office. The results of this study help to manage children's behavior more efficiently in the clinical settings which is crucial to achieving effective treatment.

Conditions

  • Child Behavior
  • Acute Pain

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

behavioral priming

Priming the children with images of superheroes in order to behave desirably during the dental injection

BEHAVIORAL

endowment effect

Giving the rewards to children before starting the dental treatment and telling children they can only keep it if they behave desirably during the dental procedure

BEHAVIORAL

Positive reinforcement

Giving rewards to the children at the end if they cooperate desirably during the treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mohammad Moharrami, DDS · University of Alberta

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-12
Primary Completion
2019-06-12
Completion
2019-06-12

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