The Influence of Medical Clowns on the Performance of Pulmonary Function Tests Among Preschooler Children
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 200
- 主要终点
- length of experium (seconds)
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 3 Years 至 6 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •children visiting the pediatric pulmonology clinic
- •parents signed informed consent
排除标准
- •medical or neurological diseases not allowing performance of pulmonary function tests
- •parents refusal
结局指标
主要结局
length of experium (seconds)
时间窗: through study completion; estimate 1 year
length of experium (seconds)
FEV1 (%predicted)
时间窗: through study completion; estimate 1 year
forced experiom volume within 1 second (% predicted)
次要结局
未报告次要终点