The Effects of Pre-operative Magic Tricks Performance on Pre-operative Anxiety in Children

Sheba Medical Center

Status and phase

Withdrawn

Phase 1

Conditions

Anxiety

Treatments

Other: Preoperative Magic Tricks

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00535457

SHEBA-07-4786-ZS-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is not uncommon for children to undergo surgery. Surgery is a threatening event that is composed of various stress-provoking stimuli. Pre-operative anxiety is a common emotional response among operated children and their parents. In the current study we are going to examine if tricks done by the anesthesiologist before anesthetic induction are equally as effective as oral midazolam premedication in the reduction of pre-operative anxiety in children before and after surgery. A successful anxiety reduction may be advantageous over pharmacological premedication by cost reduction, a possibly shorter post anesthesia care stay and by reducing postoperative maladaptive behavior rate.

Study hypothesis: 1. similar anxiety scores will be observed in children that will watch their anesthesiologist performing tricks and in those who will receive oral midazolam premedication but no tricks.

Similar rates of postoperative maladaptive behavior will be found in children that that will see tricks and in those that will receive midazolam premedication.

Sex

All

Ages

3 to 12 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

age 3-12 years
minor surgeries / diagnostic procedures such as endoscopy, biopsy

Exclusion criteria

children that do not speak Hebrew
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) status above II
a need for regional anesthesia only
a need for an intravenous (IV) cannulation at the induction room or operating room before the induction of anesthesia.