Environmental Game After Appendicitis Surgery

Okan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Device: game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05104021

2018.06.01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted to determine the effect of environmental play and mobilization on fear and pain levels of children aged 6-12 years who had acute appendicitis surgery.

Full description

It was conducted with children aged 6-12 years in the postoperative period in a randomized controlled manner. Children in the intervention (n:50) group were mobilized by playing environmental games.The children in the control group (n:50) underwent routine mobilization of the clinic.

The data were collected with the "Child Follow-up Form", which was created to evaluate the child's demographic characteristics, physiological parameters, pain and fear.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being between 6-12 years old,
• Being open to communication and cooperation,
• No visual or hearing impairment,
• Appendectomy surgery,
• First mobilization after surgery.
• Parent's willingness to participate in the study can be sorted.

Exclusion criteria

• Having a mental or neurological disability,
• Children with hearing and vision impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

game group

Experimental group

Description:

Children who accepted to participate in the game were taken to the playground with minimum two and maximum four people. After the children were introduced to each other, the rules of the game were explained. Between the children playing, dice were rolled to determine the starting order of the game. The player who scored the highest number had the right to start the game first. With the help of the stopwatch, the playing time was started, and the children played the game in accordance with the rules. For the child who first reached the square of the world, the time was stopped and recorded in the "Child Follow-up Form". The game was played with a maximum game duration of 15 minutes. In the same way, the times of the children who reached the world square in the second, third and fourth places were recorded on the "Follow-up Form".

Treatment:

Device: game

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Children in the control group were allowed to walk for 15 minutes on a flat surface in the clinic accompanied by the researcher and their parents. As soon as the child came out of his room, the time was started with the help of a stopwatch. The time was stopped when the child went back to bed. The pain and fear scores of each child who completed the game and mobilization were evaluated separately and simultaneously by the child, parent and researcher with the help of the "Visual Analog Scale" and the "Child Fear Scale", and then the physiological parameter measurements were made by the researcher and the "Child Follow-up Form" was evaluated after the procedure. and data collection was terminated.