Effect of Television Cartoons in Patients Younger Than 3.5 Years During Echocardiography

Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pediatrics; Echocardiography

Treatments: Procedure: echocardiography; Behavioral: Watching Animated cartoons

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02498743

2015-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is analyze the influence of TV entertainment in children less than 3 years of age during echocardiography in order to achieve a complete and accurate test.

This is an experimental study in children with suspected congenital or acquired cardiac disease. An examination room was prepared with a TV on the ceiling that was positioned in a way that would provide unobstructed viewing for children during the echocardiography procedure.

Enrollment: 58 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 43 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pediatric patients who were referred to pediatric cardiology consultation.
• Patients younger than 3.5 years.
• Signed informed consent by parents.

Exclusion criteria

• No signed informed consent by parents.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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58 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group with television

Experimental group

Description:

Animated cartoons with sound were reproduced during the echocardiography

Treatment:

Behavioral: Watching Animated cartoons

Procedure: echocardiography

control group with usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Echocardiography was performed by using the distractions available at the time of test.