Objective: This study examined the influence of visual art therapy techniques in reducing anxiety levelamong 4 to 6 years old paediatric dental patients.Methods: Eleven subjects were selected among 4 to 6 years old paediatric dental patients. The initialreaction towards dental procedure/treatment was evaluated using Frankl Behavior Rating Scale. Theanxiety level was assessed by using Malay-Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale (MCDASf) to measurea child situational anxiety of pre- and post-treatment. Visual art making activities included free drawing,clay moulding and collage technique. The participant reaction to dental treatment was assessed by usingFrankl Behavioural Rating Scale for two subsequent independent visits in two weeks interval. Medianand Ordinal Test ranked the variables score of behavioural reaction towards dental treatment and anxietylevel.Results: Play-doh (PD) subjects could accept dental procedures more if compared to free drawing (FD)and storytelling by collage (ST) subjects, which has lower post treatment-median scores in Visit 1 andVisit 2, FD and ST subjects need more time to show positive attitude towards dental treatment.Conclusion: These findings suggest dental anxiety level of children aged 4 to 6 years old reduced afterthe art therapy and play-doh(clay-moulding technique) is the art making activity of choice among 4 to 6years old paediatric dental patients.

Diseases such as malaria, dengue, Zika and chikungunya remain endemic in many countries. Setting and deploying traps to capture the host/vector species are fundamental to understand their density and distributions. Human effort to manage the trap data accurately and timely is an exhaustive endeavour when the study area expands and period prolongs. One stop mobile app to manage and monitor the process of targeted species trapping, from field to laboratory level is still scarce. Toward this end, we developed a new mobile app named “PesTrapp” to acquire the vector density index based on the mobile updates of ovitraps and species information in field and laboratory. This study aimed to highlight the mobile app’s development and design, elucidate the practical user experiences of using the app and evaluate the preliminary user assessment of the mobile app. The mobile app was developed using mobile framework and database. User evaluation of the mobile app was based on the adjusted Mobile App Rating Scale and Standardized User Experience Percentile Rank Questionnaire. The process flows of system design and detailed screen layouts were described. The user experiences with and without the app in a project to study Aedes surveillance in six study sites in Selangor, Malaysia were elucidated. The overall mean user evaluation score of the mobile app was 4.0 out of 5 (SD=0.6), reflects its acceptability of the users. The PesTrapp, a one-stop solution, is anticipated to improve the entomological surveillance work processes. This new mobile app can contribute as a tool in the vector control countermeasure strategies.