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.
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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
52
Dentist wearing reusable respirator will examin the patient
Faculty of Dentistry, Fayoum university
Al Fayyum, Egypt
Arabic version of children's fear survey schedule-dental subscale (CFSS-DS)
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
Time frame: just after examination
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