Use of an animated emoji scale as a novel tool for anxiety assessment in children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dental anxiety in children is a major barrier in patient management. If dental anxiety in pediatric patients is assessed during the first visit, it will not only aid in management but also help to identify patients who are in need of special care to deal with their fear. Nowadays, children and adults are highly interested in multimedia and are closely associated with them. Children usually prefer motion pictures on electronic devices than still cartoons on paper. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate a newly designed scale, the animated emoji scale (AES), which uses motion emoticons/animojis to assess dental anxiety in children during their first dental visit, and compare it with the Venham picture test (VPT) and facial image scale (FIS).

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Setty JV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6726885 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature