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WithdrawnNCT03366467Updated Apr 4, 2022

Effect of Sensory Adapted Dental Environment on Children's Behavior During Dental Treatment

An interventional study of SADE and RDE in Child Behavior, sponsored by Hadassah Medical Organization. Withdrawn. Open to participants aged 3 Years to 10 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-04-04.

Sponsored by Hadassah Medical Organization · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other

Why this study was withdrawn
The clinic no longer have sensory adapted environment equipment
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
3 Years to 10 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The objective of the present study is to determine the effect of sensory adapted dental environment (SADE) in healthy children during a routine dental restorative treatment. The hypothesis is that the SADE would have a favorable effect in calming the subjects during dental treatment.

the study is a random cross-over design. The participants will be randomly assigned into two groups. Group 1 will initially be treated under SADE (Time 1) and receive regular dental environment (RDE) on the second encounter (Time 2). For the second group, the procedure is reversed (RDE at Time 1 and SADE at Time 2).

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  • Dental treatment- will include restorations, crowns, pulp treatment, with local anesthesia. The use of oral/inhaled sedation will be decided according to the patient's behavior and cooperation assessment.
  • Dental settings- The SADE: the sensory stimuli addressed are visual and auditory, as follows: (i) Visual sensation. All ceiling fluorescent lighting are removed. The adapted lighting consisted of slow-moving, repetitive visual color effects created by a projector, in the child's visual field. (ii) Auditory stimuli include rhythmic music, which was heard via loudspeakers. The RDE utilized fluorescent lighting on the ceiling, without special visual effects and without music stimulation.
  • Instruments- 1) the children will be observed during the treatments. The observer will code all behaviors according to the Houpt Scale used for rating patient behavior during treatment. In addition, the examiner will count the number and duration (in minutes) of the anxious behavior (crying and movements). Because of the nature of the study (one environment with sensory adaptation and the other without), the observer cannot be blind to the treatment environment. 2) Physiologic arousal states, evaluated by the assessment of EDA (Mindlife Co, Jerusalem, Israel). Changes in the electrical conductance of the skin are a sensitive way of monitoring autonomic responses to external stimuli.
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Conditions studied

  • Child Behavior

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Keywords

  • dental treatment
  • sensory adapted environment
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In context

Child Behavior

224 studies on the registry are indexed under Child Behavior; 41 are open to participants now.

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Lead sponsor

Hadassah Medical Organization is the lead sponsor of 675 studies on the registry; 54 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
3 Years to 10 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • ASA1
  • Needs at least 2 similar dental treatment appointments

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Needs only one dental treatment
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Crossover assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    SADE first

    SADE first will initially be treated under SADE (Time 1) and receive RDE on the second encounter (Time 2)

    Other: SADE · Other: RDE

  • Experimental
    RDE first

    RDE first will initially be treated under RDE (Time 1) and receive SADE on the second encounter (Time 2)

    Other: SADE · Other: RDE

Interventions

  • OtherSADE

    The SADE: the sensory stimuli addressed are visual and auditory, as follows: (i) Visual sensation. All ceiling fluorescent lighting are removed. The adapted lighting consisted of slow-moving, repetitive visual color effects created by a projector, in the child's visual field. (ii) Auditory stimuli include rhythmic music, which was heard via loudspeakers.

  • OtherRDE

    The RDE utilized fluorescent lighting on the ceiling, without special visual effects and without music stimulation.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Physiologic arousal states

    Evaluated by palmar electrodermal activity (EDA) during dental treatment

    Time frame: Data will be reported through study completion, an average of 2 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Houpt Scale

    Rating patient behavior during treatment according to Houpt scale. The Houpt scale is a tool used to assess a child's behavior during dental sedation according to specific categories and scores including: sleep (1-awake, 2-drowsy, disoriented), movement (1-violent, 2-continuous, 3-controllable, 4-no movement), cry (1-hysterical, 2-continuous, 3-intermittent, 4-no cry), and overall behavior (1-treatment aborted, 2-poor, 3-regular, 4-good, 5-very good, 6-excellent).

    Time frame: Data will be reported through study completion, an average of 2 years

  2. Anxious behavior-number

    Examiner will count the number of the anxious behavior episodes (crying and movements) during dental treatment.

    Time frame: Data will be reported through study completion, an average of 2 years

  3. Anxious behavior-duration

    Examiner will count the duration, in minute, of the anxious behavior (crying and movements) during dental treatment..

    Time frame: Data will be reported through study completion, an average of 2 years

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 4, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03366467
Responsible party
Avia Fux (pediatric dentist, Hadassah Medical Organization) — Principal investigator
First posted
Dec 8, 2017
Start date
Mar 22, 2022
Primary completion
Mar 22, 2022
Completion
Mar 22, 2022
Last update
Apr 4, 2022

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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