Designing Animated Movie for Preoperative Period

Ege University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fear; Postoperative Pain; Surgery; Patient; Clinical Anxiety; Pediatric; Pain; Nurse's Role; Nursing Caries

Treatments: Other: Educational animated movie group; Other: Documentary movie group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04176822

SYaz

Ege (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Using visual materials is effective in education to decrease children's pre-operative fear and post-operative pain. Children, especially those aged between 6 and 12 years, are interested in technology. This study aims to investigate the effects of watching an educational animated movie in the pre-operative period on fear and postoperative pain in children who are having surgery.

Methods: The study was a prospective randomized controlled trial. This study was conducted between 6- to 12-year-old children in the Pediatric Surgery Clinic of Ege University Medical Faculty Hospital. The current study includes data from 132 children who were chosen doing block randomization. The "Child and Family Identification Data Form", "Children's Fear Scale" and "Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale" was used in data collection. The patients were divided randomly into three groups as the "Educational Animated Movie Group" (EAMG), "Documentary Movie Group" (DMG) and "Control Group" (CG). The Educational Animated Movie and Documentary Movie were screened using Virtual Reality (VR). Data were collected by the researcher in the pre-operative period. The pre-operative fear of the child was evaluated by the child and the parent, and the post-operative pain of the child was evaluated by the child, parent, and nurse using scales about fear and pain.

Enrollment: 132 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• First surgery
• Daily surgery and uncomplicated surgery
• Agree to participate in the study
• Speaking Turkish

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal to participate in the study
• A genetic/congenital disease
• A chronic disease
• Second or more surgery
• Not speaking Turkish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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132 participants in 3 patient groups

Educational Animated Movie Group

Experimental group

Description:

All of the children's and parents' written and verbal informed consent were obtained before the study. Parents who did not want to participate in the study were assured that this would not have any adverse effect on their child's treatment. In the morning of surgery, the researcher administered the "Child and Family Identification Data Form" to the parents of children who had the following parameters. Later, both the child and the parents were asked to complete the "Children's Fear Scale". Children included in the study groups with randomization watched an educational animated movie through VR Goggles. The educational animated movie lasted around 3-4 minutes each. After watching the movie, children and parents were asked to complete the Children's Fear Scale again. Children, parents, and nurses were asked to grade the pain of the child with Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale when the children returned to their room and after 1 hour in the postoperative period.

Treatment:

Other: Educational animated movie group

Documentary Movie Group

Experimental group

Description:

All of the children's and parents' written and verbal informed consent were obtained before the study. Parents who did not want to participate in the study were assured that this would not have any adverse effect on their child's treatment. In the morning of surgery, the researcher administered the "Child and Family Identification Data Form" to the parents of children who had the following parameters. Later, both the child and the parents were asked to complete the "Children's Fear Scale". Children included in the study groups with randomization watched a documentary movie through VR Goggles. The documentary movie lasted around 3-4 minutes each. After watching the movie, children and parents were asked to complete the Children's Fear Scale again. Children, parents, and nurses were asked to grade the pain of the child with Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale when the children returned to their room and after 1 hour in the postoperative period.

Treatment:

Other: Documentary movie group

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was made, pain and fear levels were measured using scales only.