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NCT Number: NCT02490995

Inform and Reduce Pre-surgical Anxiety of the Child and His Parents: Interest of an Explanatory Movie.

The purpose of the study is to measure the interest of a movie explaining the path of the children in surgery, in order to reduce the anxiety of the children and his parents.

This study is interventional, method randomized, controled, open-label, comparing two parallel arms: anesthesist explanations versus anesthesist explanations + a movie explanation.

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Key information

Age range

Up to 12 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Montpellier university hospital

Montpellier, 34295, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patient who need a surgery
  • Patient that general condition fit with American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) I to III classification.
  • Old patient under age 12
  • Patient whose parents agreed to participate

Exclusion criteria

  • Patient with psychomotor limitations
  • Patient that had already been hospitalised for a surgery

Treatment and study plan

Movie

Other

Besides the anesthesist explanations the children will have a movie explanation.

Primary outcomes

  1. The Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (m-YPAS)

    Time frame: the 1 surgery day at the time of the separation parents-children

    Pre-surgical anxiety score of the children when separate from his parents, measured with the Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (m-YPAS)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Induction Compliance Checklist (ICC)

    Time frame: intraoperative

    Score of "compliance" in the anesthetic induction measured by the ICC scale (hetero-assessment)

  2. The agitation in recovery room

    Time frame: First 15 minutes of the arrival in recovery room

    The agitation in recovery room measured by the scale of agitation in the awakening of a pediatric anesthesia (EPAD) (hetero-assessment)

  3. psychometric validation of the SAS (self anxiety scale)

    Time frame: up to postoperative day 30

    validation of the self report anxiety scale

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Montpellier

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Inform and Reduce Pre-surgical Anxiety of the Child and His Parents: Interest of an Explanatory Movie About the Pathway of the Child in Pediatric Surgery.

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Jul 7, 2015
Registry last updated
Nov 21, 2019

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