Use of Incentives for Stressful Medical Procedures
- Conditions
- Healthy
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Child life standard of careBehavioral: Child life standard of care + incentive provided unconditionally.Behavioral: Child life standard of care + incentives provided with conditional agreement.
- Registration Number
- NCT06254898
- Lead Sponsor
- Jennifer Staab
- Brief Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the use of incentives in pediatric patients requiring medical procedures. The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Are incentives effective at reducing pediatric anxiety for medical procedures?
* What is the best way to use incentives with pediatric populations requiring medical procedures? Participants will be provided support in preparation for their procedure and during the procedure by a child life specialist and might receive an incentive prize after their procedure. Participants distress levels during the procedure will be observed and they will be asked to rate their anxiety on a visual analog scale.
Researchers will compare the anxiety of those who did or did not receive an incentive after their procedure to see if incentives reduced procedural anxiety.
- Detailed Description
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact incentives have on the distress and cooperation of children undergoing stressful medical procedures. The primary aim is to determine if offering an incentive reduces procedural distress for children undergoing stressful medical procedures. Secondly, if an incentive is offered does the process for offering the incentive (conditional or unconditional) to the patient impact the procedural distress of the patient. Patient anxiety and visit satisfaction will be looked at as secondary measures.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 187
- Patients and parent of patients aged 6-100 years who are undergoing a medical procedure
- Patients and parent of patients who are prepared and supported by a certified child life specialist.
- Cognitive impairment that negates the use of the outcome tools
- Children younger than 6 years old, or older than 17 years old.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Child life standard of care Child life standard of care Child life standard of care Child life standard of care + incentive provided unconditionally. Child life standard of care + incentive provided unconditionally. Child life standard of care + incentive provided unconditionally. Child life standard of care + incentives provided with conditional agreement. Child life standard of care + incentives provided with conditional agreement. Child life standard of care + incentives provided with conditional agreement.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Visual Scale Self-Report Anxiety Immediately after the intervention/procedure/surgery Visual analog scale used for participants to report their perceived anxiety. Scores range from 0-100, lower scores meaning the participant is less anxious.
modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) Immediately after the intervention/procedure/surgery Observational measure of anxiety in pediatric patients. Scores range from 23.33 to 100, lower scores meaning less anxiety.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Visit Satisfaction Survey Immediately after the intervention/procedure/surgery Visit satisfaction survey completed by the accompanying parent.
Trial Locations
- Locations (3)
Children's Hospital Colorado North Campus
🇺🇸Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Children's Hospital Colorado South Campus
🇺🇸Highlands Ranch, Colorado, United States
Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz
🇺🇸Aurora, Colorado, United States