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Play Interventions to Reduce Anxiety and Negative Emotions in Hospitalized Children

NCT02665403 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 304

Last updated 2016-01-27

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Summary

Hospitalization is a stressful and threatening experience, which can be emotionally devastating to children. Hospital play interventions have been widely used to prepare children for invasive medical procedures and hospitalization. Nevertheless, there is an imperative need for rigorous empirical scrutiny of the effectiveness of hospital play interventions, in particular, using play activities to ease the psychological burden of hospitalized children. This study tested the effectiveness of play interventions to reduce anxiety and negative emotions in hospitalized children. A non-equivalent control group pre-test and post-test, between subjects design was conducted in the two largest acute-care public hospitals in Hong Kong. A total of 304 Chinese children (ages 3-12) admitted for treatments in these two hospitals were invited to participate in the study. Of the 304 paediatric patients, 154 received hospital play interventions and 150 received usual care.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Play intervention

participants received around 30 minutes of hospital play interventions each day, conducted by hospital play specialists. Such interventions consisted of structured and non-structured activities. All these activities were given at the patients' bedside, with or without parental supervision, either once or spreading over an hour, depending on the ward routine.

OTHER

control

Children received standard medical and nursing care, such as vital signs observation, pharmacological treatment and wound and pain management as a control treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ho Cheung, William LI, PhD · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-11-30
Primary Completion
2013-10-31
Completion
2013-10-31

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