The Influence of Medical Clowns on the Performance of Pulmonary Function Tests Among Preschooler Children
- Conditions
- PneumoniaAsthma
- Interventions
- Behavioral: medical clown
- Registration Number
- NCT02708225
- Lead Sponsor
- Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
- Brief Summary
Medical clowns are known to assist in relaxing children and allowing better cooperation during performance of medical procedures.
The ability of medical clowns to improve the motivation of children to perform active tasks was never examined to date.
The investigators would like to examine the influence of the clowns' presence on the performance of pulmonary function test.
- Detailed Description
The investigators would like to evaluate the performance of pulmonary function tests among preschool children aged 3-6 years.
Overall 200 children will participate.
The children will perform pulmonary function test without a clown present.
About an hour later half of them will perform the exam again with a medical clown assistance and the second half will repeat the examination without a clown present the differences between the performance will be evaluated.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200
- children visiting the pediatric pulmonology clinic
- parents signed informed consent
- medical or neurological diseases not allowing performance of pulmonary function tests
- parents refusal
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description interventional - with a medical clown medical clown will perform pulmonary function test without the presence of a clown and an hour later will re-do the test with a medical clown present
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method length of experium (seconds) through study completion; estimate 1 year length of experium (seconds)
FEV1 (%predicted) through study completion; estimate 1 year forced experiom volume within 1 second (% predicted)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method