Assessing the effectiveness of the Little Journey app at reducing children’s anxiety before surgery
- Conditions
- Peri-operative anxietyNot Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN23410641
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity College London
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 304
1. Children aged between 3-12 years of age on the date of parental consent to participate in the trial
2. Those undergoing surgery planned to be conducted as a day-case (surgery is defined as any therapeutic procedure taking place under the care of an anaesthetist and surgeon or dentist)
3. Requiring general anaesthetic (must be their first general anaesthetic)
4. American Society of Anesthetists physical status class I-III
Class I: A normal healthy patient
Class II: A patient with mild systemic disease
Class III: A patient with severe systemic disease
5. Both child and parent able to speak/understand one of the languages available on the app (these languages are: English, Polish, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali)
1. Children aged less than 3 years of age or more than 12 years’ old on the date of parental consent
2. Any child and/or parent that refuses to be part of the study
3. Patients and parents who do not speak one of the languages which are available on the app
4. American Society of Anesthetists physical status class IV-VI
Class IV: A patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life
Class V: A moribund patient who is not expected to survive without the operation
5. Children undergoing diagnostic procedures (e.g. scans, cardiac catheterisation)
6. Any child with a visual or hearing impairments significant enough to prevent use of the intervention as decided on case-by-case basis
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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