Reduction of Preoperative Anxiety in Children: Clickamico Project 2nd Phase

University of Florence (UNIFI)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Preoperative Anxiety

Treatments: Procedure: Video; Other: Standard care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01688115

IPAD2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a video shown using an iPad, compared to a standard treatment, to reduce preoperative anxiety in children who have to undergo to elective surgery procedure

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 11 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 6 and 11
• No cerebral impairment or cognitive impairment
• Child and his/her family native speaker of Italian
• admission to the hospital at list one day before the sugery procedure
• presence of written consent of the parents to the study

Exclusion criteria

• age lower than 6 or upper than 11
• presence of cerebral impairment or cognitive impairment
• Child and his/her family are not native speaker of Italian
• absence of written consent of the parents to the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Procedure

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Video

Standard Care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Standard care