The Effect of Music That the Individuals With Moderate Dental Anxiety Have Started Listening to While Waiting

NCT07274501 | Active Not Recruiting DMC

• 1 other identifier: 2024/24
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 90
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

It is aimed to evaluate the effect of music listened to in the waiting room on patients with moderate dental anxiety during the restoration of posterior occlusal dental caries on vital signs, cortisol and oxytocin levels of the participants.

Conditions

Dental Anxiety

Keywords

Dental anxiety; Music; Oxytocin; Cortisol

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Salivary cortisol level and oxytocin levels

  Change of salivary cortisol and oxytocin levels (before-after)

  During waiting in the waiting room and dental treatment, an average of one hour

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Heart rate

  During waiting in the waiting room and dental treatment, an average of one hour

• Systolic and diastolic blood pressure

  During waiting in the waiting room and dental treatment, an average of one hour

• Body temperature

  During waiting in the waiting room and dental treatment, an average of one hour

• Oxygen saturation

  During waiting in the waiting room and dental treatment, an average of one hour

Other Outcomes (1)

• Modified dental anxiety questionnaire

  During waiting in the waiting room and dental treatment, an average of one hour

Study Arms (3)

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

In the control group there will be no music listening

Experimental 1

EXPERIMENTAL

The music will be listened to only in the waiting room

Behavioral: Music listening in the waiting room

Experimental 2

EXPERIMENTAL

The music will be listened to in the waiting room and it will continue during dental treatment

Behavioral: Music listening in the waiting room

Interventions

Music listening in the waiting room BEHAVIORAL

The patients will start to listen to music in the waiting room

Experimental 1; Experimental 2

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Must be healthy volunteers,
• Clinical diagnosis of at least one occlusal dental caries
• Must have moderate dental anxiety

You may not qualify if:

• Unhealthy volunteers
• Teeth with dental cavities in the adjacent teeth where the rubber dam would not be placed
• Dental caries closer than 1 mm to the pulp tissue

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Karadeniz Technical University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Dentistry

Trabzon, 61080, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Asst Prof

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 15, 2025
• First Posted: December 10, 2025
• Study Start: April 17, 2025
• Primary Completion: April 20, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 15, 2026
• Last Updated: December 10, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-11

Locations

TU (1)