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Parental Anxiety in children undergoing surgery a question based study.

Active, not recruiting
Conditions
parents of the child undergoing surgery
Registration Number
CTRI/2019/01/017058
Lead Sponsor
AIIMS Bhubaneswar
Brief Summary

Surgery and Hospitalisation of a child and has a very stressful consequence for the child and their parents. Perioperative anxiety is a common phenomenon and it starts from the admission till child get discharged cured.   [2,3]. Various literature described a high level of parental anxiety in the child’s preoperative period. Mothers are more prone to experience anxiety before their child’s surgery than fathers are and divorced parents and parents with lower educational levels rate themselves as significantly more anxious preoperatively. The parental anxiety usually transferred to the child, which leads to the stressful and very anxious child before surgery. 4   Increased preoperative anxiety in children has been shown to correlate with increased postoperative pain, analgesic requirements and long-lasting psychological effects on the child’s response to subsequent medical care and interference with normal development .4

 Education plays important role in controlling anxiety with low education level was significantly associated with anxiety and depression.5 Furthermore, some study also shows that Parental anxiety levels did not correlate with civil or educational status 4.

Cultural and ethnic background influences the anxiety of parents and children. Apart from this, there are almost negligible Indian data or studies available about the parental anxiety in preop area.

 Hence, we plan this study to identify the prevalence of level of anxiety in parents of children who will undergo various surgeries and their relationship with the education level, financial status of parent, age & sex of the child in the preoperative area.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Closed to Recruitment of Participants
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
216
Inclusion Criteria

All the parents whose children undergoing elective surgery.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Prevalence of preoperative anxiety among parents whose child is undergoing surgery.preoperative 24hr period
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1- To measure the education status of parents & its relation with the level ofanxiety.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

AIIMS

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Khordha, ORISSA, India

AIIMS
🇮🇳Khordha, ORISSA, India
alok kumar sahoo
Principal investigator
9438884160
alokks108@gmail.com

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