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

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Anxiety Linked to the Surgery and / or Anesthesia
Registration Number
NCT02490995
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Montpellier
Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
80
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

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (m-YPAS)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 Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The agitation in recovery roomFirst 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)

psychometric validation of the SAS (self anxiety scale)up to postoperative day 30

validation of the self report anxiety scale

Induction Compliance Checklist (ICC)intraoperative

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

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Montpellier university hospital

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Montpellier, France

Montpellier university hospital
🇫🇷Montpellier, France

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