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Cartoon Distraction and Parental Presence on Anxiety in Pediatric Anesthesia

NCT02027844 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 117

Last updated 2015-11-02

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Summary

Nearly 50% of young children undergoing surgery exhibit high level of anxiety during induction of anesthesia because of exposure to unfamiliar environment and people and separation from parents. Increased preoperative anxiety may impact postoperative behavior changes such as emergence agitation, separation anxiety and sleep disturbance. Although some pediatric anesthesiologists routinely permit parental presence to reduce the anxiety during induction of anesthesia, previous studies have reported conflicting results. Recently the distraction using video game or animated cartoon has been reported to reduce anxiety of young children during induction of anesthesia. However, it was still undetermined whether distraction has its own ability to reduce children's anxiety separated from parental presence because they evaluated the effect of video method in the parental presence. The investigators design to investigated the efficacy of distraction with watching cartoon, parental presence and combined with watching cartoon and parental presence on reduction of anxiety during inhalational induction of anesthesia using sevoflurane. In addition this study includes long-term effect of each intervention such as postoperative emergence agitation and postoperative behavior change in children.

Conditions

  • Anxiety, Separation
  • Psychomotor Agitation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cartoon

Cartoon watching by children during inhalational induction of sevoflurane

BEHAVIORAL

parental presence

parental presence during inhalational induction of sevoflurane

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yeungnam University College of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sung Mee Jung, MD · Yeungnam University College of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Year
Max Age
7 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-12-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-06-30

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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