Clown Doctors and a Sedative Premedicant for Children Undergoing Surgery

Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Insomnia

Treatments: Drug: midazolam; Other: clown doctor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00886314

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the present investigation will be to determine whether a combination of clown doctor and parental presence is more effective than a combination of sedative premedication and parental presence for reducing anxiety in children and their parents and for improving parental satisfaction.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children aged 2 to 12 yr, scheduled for minor surgery under general anesthesia will be included in the present study.

Exclusion criteria

• Children with prematurity, development delay, previous anesthetic experience will be excluded from this study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

midazolam

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: midazolam

clown doctor

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: clown doctor