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Study aim
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Determination and Comparison of the effectiveness of therapy based on acceptance and commitment and cognitive-behavioral therapy on Pain Coping Strategies, Severity of Pain Perception, Disaster Pain Imagery, and Pain Related Anxiety in patients with dental anxiety
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Design
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Controlled clinical trial,with parallel groups,double blinded, randomized design
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Settings and conduct
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Forty-eight participants who were eligible for inclusion in the study were randomly classified into three groups by a statistics consultant. The groups included acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and control. Then, the participants who were blind to the intervention were invited to attend separate sessions at the dental research center of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The assessors, except for the researcher, gave the encoded dental anxiety scale, cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire, and oral health-related quality of life scale to the participants to complete at pretest, posttest, and three-month follow-up. Each therapy included ten 90-minute sessions per week.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: age between 19-50 years old; Having the dental anxiety. Exclusion criteria: need for emergent dental care.
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Intervention groups
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Intervention group1:In this group the treatment will be done according to acceptance and commitment therapy using the model presented by Haze 2016. Intervention group2:In this group the treatment will be done according to cognitive-behavioral therapy using the model presented by by Ost,Öst & Skaret 2013. control group:oral health education
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Main outcome variables
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Pain Coping Strategies; Severity of Pain Perception; Disaster Pain Imagery; Pain Related Anxiety