Perception of Children With Visible Untreated and Treated Caries

NCT02899273 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 36/2/16
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 38
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

In Germany about 5 to 20% of children suffer from early childhood caries (ECC). Preceding results of eye-tracking-studies on the perception of patients with unilateral cleft and patients with severe orthognathic malocclusion let us assume that caries and missing teeth might influence the observer's focus. The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that the faces of patients with ECC and patients with signs of dental treatment (crown, gap etc.) are contemplated differently from and assessed more negatively than healthy patients. Particular attention should be paid to potential differences between the findings of the two observer-groups (medical laypersons/ dental students).

Conditions

Dental Caries

Keywords

Early Childhood Caries; eye-tracking; children; dentistry; face perception

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• The first fixation on one of both pictures will be measured

  both pictures: a) emotional, b) neutral

  3 sec

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• First fixation of one of three areas of interest will be measured

  300 msec

• Fixation time and fixation number of areas of interest will be measured

  2 sec

• Are the pictures different in valence, arousal, attractiveness

  30 min

Study Arms (2)

Dentistry students

Dentistry students of the University of Göttingen

Psychology students

Psychology students of the University of Hildesheim

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

40

You may qualify if:

• healthy
• student of the University of Göttingen or Hildesheim
• age ≥ 18 years
• people who agreed to participate in the study
• right-hander

You may not qualify if:

• missing agreement to participate in the study
• missing cooperation,
• age \< 18 years
• left-hander
• wearer of glasses
• people with severe systemic diseases, especially states with associated temporary or permanent restriction of immune status
• people with severe mental illness who have altered perception or neurophysiological stimulus processing.
• people who take regularly or at the time of the study drug or drugs that altered a perception or neurophysiological stimulus processing

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Göttingen: lead
• Stiftung Universität Hildesheim: collaborator

Study Sites (2)

Department of Preventive Dentistry, Periodontology and Cariology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany

Göttingen, Lower Saxony, 37075, Germany

Location

Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Institute of Psychology, University of Hildesheim Hildesheim, Germany

Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, 31141, Germany

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Dental Caries

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Tooth Demineralization; Tooth Diseases; Stomatognathic Diseases

Study Officials

• Annette Wiegand, Prof. Dr.

  Dept. of Prev. Dentistry, Periodontology and Cariology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Kristian Folta-Schoofs, Prof. Dr.

  Dep. of Psychology, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Target Duration: 1 Day
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 26, 2016
• First Posted: September 14, 2016
• Study Start: April 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: December 8, 2016
• Study Completion: February 21, 2017
• Last Updated: April 11, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-04

Locations

DE (2)