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ArticleBMJ open2017

Evidence of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for the management of dental fear in paediatric dentistry: a systematic review protocol.

Stefano Cianetti, Luigi Paglia, Roberto Gatto, Alessandro Montedori, Eleonora Lupatelli

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Article in BMJ open, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Anxiety, Stress and Coping Patterns in Children in Dental Settings.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Stefano CianettiSurgical and Biomedical Sciences, Unit of Paediatric Dentistry, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Luigi PagliaDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry, Italian Stomatologic Institute, Milan, Italy.
Roberto GattoDepartment of Life Health and Environmental Sciences, Division of Implantology and Prosthetic Dentistry, Dental Clinic, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
Alessandro MontedoriHealth Planning Service, Regional Health Authority of Umbria, Perugia, Italy.
Eleonora LupatelliSurgical and Biomedical Sciences, Unit of Paediatric Dentistry, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8454-7246
University of Perugia · ITIRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano · ITUniversity of L'Aquila · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionSeveral techniques have been proposed to manage dental fear/dental anxiety (DFA) in children and adolescents undergoing dental procedures. To our knowledge, no widely available compendium of therapies to manage DFA exists. We propose a study protocol to assess the evidence regarding pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to relieve dental anxiety in children and adolescents. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: In our systematic review, we will include randomised trials, controlled clinical rials and systematic reviews (SRs) of trials that investigated the effects of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to decrease dental anxiety in children and adolescents. We will search the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects=, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed, PsycINFO, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and the Web of Science for relevant studies. Pairs of review authors will independently review titles, abstracts and full texts identified by the specific literature search and extract data using a standardised data extraction form. For each study, information will be extracted on the study report (eg, author, year of publication), the study design (eg, the methodology and, for SRs, the types and number of studies included), the population characteristics, the intervention(s), the outcome measures and the results. The quality of SRs will be assessed using the A Measurement Tool to Assess Reviews instrument, while the quality of the retrieved trials will be evaluated using the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions criteria. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Approval from an ethics committee is not required, as no participants will be included. Results will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations.

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Evidence-Based DentistryFearPediatric DentistryDental AnxietyHumansResearch DesignSystematic Reviews as Topicanxiety disordersoral medicine

Identifiers

PMID28821522
PMCPMC5629719
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