The Effectiveness of Preoperative Preparation for Improving Perioperative Outcomes in Children and Caregivers

Chiayi Christian Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Children Who Underwent Minor Surgery

Treatments: Behavioral: preoperative preparation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03314220

103013

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to accomplish the following objectives:

1. Develop a family-centered preoperative preparation program.
2. Evaluate the effectiveness of this program in terms of children's preoperative emotional behaviors, postoperative behavior, and posthospital behavior and caregivers' anxiety.

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 3-12 years, received general anesthesia, and admitted for elective outpatient ear, nose and throat, orthopedic, ophthalmology or general surgery.

Exclusion criteria

• Children with severe development delay or chronic illness were excluded. Caregivers were excluded if they could not accompany their child to the hospital on the day of the surgery.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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66 participants in 2 patient groups

standard care plus preoperative preparation

Experimental group

Description:

experimental group received standard care plus preoperative preparation, which included a tour, a cartoon video depicting a boy's surgical journey and familiarization with medical equipment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: preoperative preparation

standard care

No Intervention group