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Cortisol Measurement During Intravenous Access With a Medical Clown

NCT02168998 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 55

Last updated 2018-07-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the presence of a medical clown in a pediatric emergency department procedure room would reduce children's anxiety. The investigators hypothesize that this positive influence will be expressed as lower levels of the stress hormone (Cortisol) in the blood.

Conditions

  • Stress, Physiological

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Clown

Comparison of routine venipuncture with a distraction technique by a medical clown

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Ayelet Rimon, MD · Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

  • Miguel Glatstein, MD · Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-08-31
Primary Completion
2016-04-30
Completion
2016-04-30

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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