Child-centered Communication and Anesthesia Use for MRI

Universidade do Porto

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavioral Problem of Child; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Child-centered communication

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05165576

CASTRO

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this project is to study the influence of child-centered communication on children's anxiety, satisfaction and the use of anesthesia for MRI

Full description

This study seeks to inspect the influence of a child-centered communication (CCC) on anesthesia use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams among four- to 10-year-old children. Children's levels of anxiety and satisfaction with the interaction also are assessed. Children are divided into three groups by order of arrival. Group 1 receives routine information about the MRI and simulates it with an MRI toy (EG1). Group 2 simulates the exam with the toy and receives the CCC. These two groups are compared with a third group of children who had received only the routine information about the exam and who served as a comparison group (CG).

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages between four and 10 years old
• Having a medical request for the MRI in the hospital
• The MRI performed for the first time

Exclusion criteria

• Presenting cognitive, psychiatric or neurological conditions that prevented the understanding of communication
• Having any intra-body devices that impeded performance of the MRI exam

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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90 participants in 3 patient groups

Child-centered communication

Experimental group

Description:

The child's preparation for the MRI scanning is conducted using a child-centered communication type of interaction

Treatment:

Behavioral: Child-centered communication

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Simulation Toy

Active Comparator group

Description:

The child's preparation for the MRI scanning is conducted through provision of general information about the MRI exam simulated with an MRI toy

Treatment:

Behavioral: Child-centered communication

General information about the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) exam

No Intervention group

Description:

The child's preparation for the MRI scanning is based on the provision of routine information about the MRI exam