Prospective Study Assessing the Validity of Y-PAS (Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale) to Predict Patients Undergoing Magnetic Resonance Imaging Without the Use of Sedation/General Anesthesia

Arlyne Thung

Status: Completed

Conditions: Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Treatments: Device: MRI simulation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02586103

IRB15-00894

Details and patient eligibility

About

The mYPAS (Modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale) is a quick, easy, validated and "gold standard" assessment tool to measure pediatric anxiety in the perioperative period. Therefore the objective of the current prospective study is examine if the mY-PAS is an effective screening tool to differentiate patients who would succeed versus fail for MRI without sedation/anesthesia.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all patients and parents who are willing to participate in the simulated practice MRI on the day of or prior to their scheduled MRI.

Exclusion criteria

• patients/parents who refuse to go through the practice MRI sessions.

Trial design

80 participants in 1 patient group

MRI

Description:

Patients who undergo simulated practice MRI on the day of or prior to their scheduled MRI.

Treatment:

Device: MRI simulation