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Observational studyPain research & management2023

A Novel Scale to Assess Parental Satisfaction of Dental Local Anesthetic Techniques in Children: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Muaaz Alkhouli, Zuhair Al-Nerabieah, Mayssoon Dashash

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Observational study in Pain research & management, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Muaaz AlkhouliPediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria.ORCID 0000-0003-0220-3859
Zuhair Al-NerabieahPediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria.ORCID 0000-0003-1843-1776
Mayssoon DashashPediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria.ORCID 0000-0002-9877-3217
Damascus University · SY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Pain control is one of the most important aspects that can affect parental satisfaction of the dental care provided for children. Dental local anesthesia has the highest impact on pain sensation of the children. However, there is no scale in the literature to assess parental satisfaction of dental local anesthetic techniques. Objectives: This study was aimed to assess the parental satisfaction with dental local anesthetic techniques for their children through designing a scale that reflects satisfaction and to study the validity and reliability of this scale. Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted on 150 parents (102 mothers and 48 fathers). Two techniques of local anesthesia were used for each child participated in this study (inferior alveolar nerve block and computerized intraosseous anesthesia). The developed scale consisted of 20 items in a 5-point Likert scale. Half of the items were written in a negative format. Internal consistency, validity, and factor analysis were performed in this study. Independent Results: Parental satisfaction mean values were higher in the computerized intraosseous anesthesia group in comparison to inferior alveolar nerve block ( Conclusions: Findings of this study reported that the designed parental satisfaction of dental local anesthetic techniques scale (PSLAS) is a valid and reliable scale to be used. Moreover, this study showed that parental satisfaction was higher when computerized intraosseous anesthesia was used in comparison to inferior alveolar nerve block.

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Anesthesia, LocalAnesthetics, LocalChildCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMalePainParentsPersonal SatisfactionReproducibility of ResultsAnesthetics, Local

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PMID37251688
PMCPMC10219770
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