What the patient ’SAID’.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
What the child ’SAID’ to the dentist - A pilot study.
IRAS ID
114872
Contact name
Marie Therese Hosey
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
King's College London
Research summary
Dental anxiety might be reduced if dentists have information about this from the patient beforehand so that they can act on it during the visit. A simple computer questionnaire that has already been developed and tested via schools, gives an accurate picture of what the child feels.
Aims:
(1) The next step is to see if the process of giving the printout to the dentist will benefit our patients and whether children will engage with the idea on our dental clinic setting.
(2) To verify if the research method works and if there is merit in taking the project further for more thorough testing.Method: A pilot study. At recruitment. The following will be recorded to report on the uptake: (a) number of eligible participants approached and (b) number of children participants who consented.
A convenience sample of 50 self-selected, child dental patients aged 8-13 years, will complete a computerised questionnaire about the way they feel about dental treatment and what they want their dentist to know. The computer automatically stores the answers and prints a summary report that the child hands to the dentist. Half of the sample will get a short questionnaire and half a longer one. The computer does this at random. At the visit end, the child and the dentist will each score, without liaising, of how they think this helped. The scores will be handed to the Post-Graduate (PG) student researcher. No personal data other than a separate note of age and gender is needed. All data will be anonymous.The PG student’s role: in the clinic waiting area- recruit and consent, safeguard the computer, iron out IT glitches and collect and analyse the data.
REC name
West Midlands - Solihull Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/WM/0175
Date of REC Opinion
15 May 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion