Puppet Show and Storytelling Effect Among Children With Cancer

Abeer Abd Elwahed Almowafy

Status: Completed

Conditions: Children With Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: standard care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06524050

UB-RELOC H-06-BH-087)/ 1205.24

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of puppet show and storytelling effect on oral medication adherence and negative emotions among children with cancer.

Methods A non-equivalent control group pre-test and post-test, between subjects design was conducted in the Maternity & Children Hospital Bisha, Al-Namas General Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Suez Canal University Hospital at Egypt. A total of 100 children (ages 3-12) admitted for treatments in this hospital were invited to participate in the study. Of the 100 paediatric patients; 50 received puppet show and storytelling interventions and 50 received usual care.

Full description

Hospitalization is a stressful and threatening experience, which can be emotionally devastating to children with cancer. Pediatric nurses play interventions such as puppet show and storytelling have been used to promote oral medication adherence for children with cancer also to help them to overcome their negative emotions during hospitalization

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Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 13 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children with cancer who were diagnosed with the disease
• stay in the hospital for a minimum of three days in a row.
• The children were aged between three and twelve.

Exclusion criteria

• Children who were getting palliative care
• weren't enrolled in a comparable program
• those with recognized cognitive
• learning disabilities were not included in our sample

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Puppet Show and Storytelling Effect among Children with Cancer

Experimental group

Description:

puppet show and storytelling interventions

Treatment:

Behavioral: standard care

standard care

No Intervention group

Description:

standard care