Dental Anxiety in Adult Individuals with Learning Disabilities
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Assessing Dental Anxiety in Individuals with Learning Disabilities: Determining the appropriateness of existing measures
IRAS ID
134006
Contact name
Carole Boyle
Contact email
Research summary
This study is trying to find out the best way to assess anxiety that people with learning disabilities might experience when attending for dental treatment. We have previously identified a list of possible questionnaire measures that could be used, and we would like to do two things:
First: we will meet the people who care for individuals with learning disabilities attending for routine dental treatment at community dental services at Hainault Health Centre in North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT).After we have identified them for this study,we will only invite the people who care for the individuals with learning disabilities on a different occasion without their patients and discuss with them the questionnaires and whether they are good measures of how the person with learning disability behaves when they are going to the dentist. On the basis of these interviews we will select three questionnaires measures that we think may be good measures
In the second: prior to the dental appointment while in the waiting area,we will ask the carer to complete three questionnaire measures of dental anxiety as they perceive them to relate to the individual with a learning disability that they are caring for.We will then compare the scores/results they give with the rating of the anxiety given by the treating dentist.REC name
London - Harrow Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
13/LO/1469
Date of REC Opinion
13 Dec 2013
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion