Inform and Reduce Pre-surgical Anxiety of the Child and His Parents: Interest of an Explanatory Movie.

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety Linked to the Surgery and / or Anesthesia

Treatments: Other: Movie

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02490995

2014-A00416-41 (Registry Identifier)

9392

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to measure the interest of a movie explaining the path of the children in surgery, in order to reduce the anxiety of the children and his parents.

This study is interventional, method randomized, controled, open-label, comparing two parallel arms: anesthesist explanations versus anesthesist explanations + a movie explanation.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient who need a surgery
• Patient that general condition fit with American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) I to III classification.
• Old patient under age 12
• Patient whose parents agreed to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Patient with psychomotor limitations
• Patient that had already been hospitalised for a surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Group A

No Intervention group

Description:

Information given by the anaesthetist during the consultation

Group B

Experimental group

Description:

Movie + Information given by the anaesthetist during the consultation

Treatment:

Other: Movie