Clinical study of music therapy for children with dental fear
WANG Yi-zhu
LI Rui
CHANG Ping
LYU Yan
LI Xiao-guang
WEN Li
LIANG Yi-ran
YUAN Yi-fang
GUO Bin
Abstract：Objective To explore the application and curative effect of music therapy in relieving children dental fear (CDF).Methods A total of 128 first-visit-dental children(aged 4-10 years),who were classified as CDF by children's fear survey schedule-dental subscale (CFSS-DS),were included in the study.The children were randomly selected to accept music therapy and behavior management (64 children,experiment group),and behavior management only (64 children,control group).Heart rate,blood pressure and oxygen saturation were recorded before,during and after treatment as well as before return visit,and anxiety level was evaluated by Venham anxiety and cooperative behavior scale.Results Sixty planned treatments were completed satisfactorily in experimental group,but only 56 children completed treatment in control group.In the process of treatment,heart rate variation in experimental group was significantly less than the control group.In the experimental group,the heart rate in operation was not significantly increased,but the postoperative rate was significantly lower than that before treatment;the intraoperative and postoperative heart rate was significantly faster than preoperative rate in the experiment group.Except for children with Venham grade of 4,other children's heart rate decreased significantly after initial visits and before subsequent visits in experiment group.Systolic pressure also showed similar trends.Conclusion Music therapy is a safe and acceptable way to relieve children dental fear with higher compliance of children.
Keywords：child dental fearCDFmusic therapybehavior management
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 274-278 )