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| Name | Class |
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| University of St Andrews | OTHER |
| University of Dundee | OTHER |
| City of Helsinki | OTHER |
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The aim is to apply short-term virtual reality relaxation to examine if it is effective in reducing pre-operative dental anxiety in primary health care using an RCT.
Randomized controlled single-center trial with two parallel arms: Virtual Reality Relaxation (VRR) and Treatment As Usual (TAU) in a public oral health care unit. VRR group receiving a 1-3.5 minute 360° video immersing them in peaceful virtual landscape with audio features and sound supporting the relaxing experience. TAU groups remaining seated for 3 minutes in similar setting.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Virtual reality relaxation | Experimental | Virtual reality relaxation using virtual landscape and audio features and sound |
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| Treatment as usual | No Intervention | Seated in similar environment as experimental group for same time |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Virtual reality relaxation | Device | 1-3.5 minute 360° videos |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Dental anxiety | post-test measured with Modified Dental Anxiety Scale, The measure has five questions, each with five reply alternatives from not anxious to extremely anxious (on a scale 1-5), MDAS sums up to the total scale (range 5-25) which is used as primary outcome. Higher scores indicate higher dental anxiety. | immediately after intervention |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Anticipatory dental anxiety and treatment related dental anxiety | The secondary outcome variables are post-test scores for the two sub-scales of the MDAS referred to as 'anticipatory' (MDAS items 1 and 2) and 'treatment' dental anxiety (MDAS items 3, 4 and 5). Scales for sum up as anticipatory anxiety (Items 1 and 2: range 2-10) and treatment anxiety (Items 3-5, range 3-15). Higher scores indicate higher dental anxiety |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Satu Lahti | Department of Community Dentistry, University of Turku, Finland | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Turku | Turku | 20014 | Finland |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 31962052 | Derived | Lahti S, Suominen A, Freeman R, Lahteenoja T, Humphris G. Virtual Reality Relaxation to Decrease Dental Anxiety: Immediate Effect Randomized Clinical Trial. JDR Clin Trans Res. 2020 Oct;5(4):312-318. doi: 10.1177/2380084420901679. Epub 2020 Jan 21. |
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Randomized controlled single-center trial with two parallel arms
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| immediately after intervention |