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Helping Parents to Decide Whether They Want to be With Their Child During Anesthesia Induction

NCT01858142 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 104

Last updated 2016-03-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Children are distressed at anesthesia induction and this distress can result in maladaptive recovery outcomes. Having parents be present at anesthesia induction (PPIA) has been suggested as a potential intervention to decrease children's distress, and this intervention is widely favored by parents. However, to date, PPIA has not been found to be effective in reducing children's anxiety. The lack of efficacy may be attributable to the fact that parents have generally not been prepared for PPIA. The one study that prepared parents (as part of a larger preoperative preparation program) found that PPIA with preparation was superior to PPIA as previously studied (without preparation). Unfortunately, this program is resource intensive and therefore is not clinically feasible. This study will compare PPIA with a clinically feasible preparation program to PPIA with standard care (minimal preparation). Should our intervention show evidence of efficacy, the investigators will have designed a program that is easily translatable to everyday clinical practice. This will, in turn, reduce children's anxiety, improve postoperative outcomes and increase parental satisfaction.

Conditions

  • Pre-operative Anxiety

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Parental presence decision tool

BEHAVIORAL

Standard preparation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • IWK Health Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jill Chorney, PhD · IWK Health Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-30
Primary Completion
2013-08-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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