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Medical Clowning and Patient Experiences in a Children's Hospital

H

Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Day Surgery

Treatments

Behavioral: Medical clowning

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04312217
164/13/03/03/2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

A case-control study is conducted in Helsinki Children's hospital. Altogether 70 children aged 4-17 years coming for a minor operative procedure including pre-operative cannula insertion will be included. Part of the patients will be exposed to medical clowning intervention and the reference group will be treated preoperatively as routinely without clowns. Emotions, anxiety levels, pain caused by the cannula insertion of the children will be monitored during the day. A survey on the emotions and expectations of the parents will be done.

Full description

This study aims to measure experiences of children and their parents during day-surgery in hospital setting.

A case-control study is conducted in Helsinki Children's hospital. Altogether 70 children aged 4-17 years coming for a minor operative procedure including pre-operative cannula insertion will be included. Part of the patients will be exposed to medical clowning intervention and the reference group will be treated preoperatively as routinely without clowns. Emotions, anxiety levels, pain caused by the cannula insertion of the children will be monitored during the day. A survey on the emotions and expectations of the parents will be done.

A novel digital survey tool will be used to measure patient experiences before and after the insertion of a venous cannula needed for anaesthesia.

The research questions are as follows:

How does engagement with a medical clown during pre-operative cannulation impact on children and their parents' patient experience? How feasible is a novel data collection tool for measuring patient experience and the impact of an intervention on the patient experience of families?

Enrollment

70 patients

Sex

All

Ages

4 to 17 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • a patient coming for a day surgery (any) procedure in Helsinki Children's Hospital
  • understands the Finnish language,
  • between 4 and 17 years of age and
  • the procedure includes the insertion of a venous cannula.

Exclusion criteria

  • does not understand the Finnish language
  • the child is under 4 years old or 18 years or older
  • the procedure does not include the insertion of a cannula but for example mask anaesthesia

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

70 participants in 2 patient groups

Medical clowning
Active Comparator group
Description:
Preoperative medical clown exposure
Treatment:
Behavioral: Medical clowning
Control
No Intervention group
Description:
Normal preop care

Trial contacts and locations

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