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Compare the Intensity of Pain Felt by Children During the Local Anesthesia Procedure to That Perceived by the Accompanying Parent.

Recruitingn/aAges 6 Years - 15 YearsAllUniversity Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
NCT07718477 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

The goal of this observational study is to compare the intensity of pain experienced by children (aged 6 to 15) during local anaesthesia with that perceived by the parent accompanying them. The main question it aims to answer is: Can a parent help assess their child's pain when the child is unable to assess it themselves? A preliminary study carried out in the dentistry department of Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital in 2019 showed that parents could be effective external assessors in distinguishing between pain and anxiety in their own children, whom they know well, and were better at this than dentists, who are more prone to errors of judgement.13 This pilot study covered several dental procedures, including pulpotomy, extraction of a primary tooth, curettage of a carious lesion and dental anaesthesia. The study yielded interesting results but also contained some biases, so the inv

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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Children aged 6 to 15 * Children requiring dental treatment involving local anaesthetic * Children accompanied by at least one parent (or legal guardian) * Children and parents who speak French fluently Exclusion Criteria: * Children under the age of 6 (complex self-assessment) * Children over the age of 15 (no longer fall within the scope of paediatric dentistry) * Children or accompanying parents who have difficulty understanding due to a limited command of French or any form of intellectual disability * Children whose parents have not consented to their participation in the study * Children who do not wish to participate in the study * Unaccompanied children * Children with an intolerance or allergy to local anaesthetics, vasoconstrictors or excipients
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What it tests

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Where

1 site
CHU Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand, France
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