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StoryTelling Medicine Application Using a Virtual Reality Intervention

NCT02687243 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 118

Last updated 2024-12-02

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Summary

Preoperative anxiety (PA) affects up to 5 million children in North America each year and is associated with adverse medical, psychological, and behavioral effects. Children who are highly anxious often require more medications during surgical procedures and take longer to recover. While many attempts have been made to reduce PA in children, existing interventions are limited by their expense and time intensive nature. Thus, the current lack of effective and efficient methods of reducing anxiety in children before and after surgery has prompted us to develop and propose to test a new intervention. The investigators have developed a novel,interactive tablet based Virtual Reality program, StoryTelling Medicine (STM), to help reduce anxiety in children undergoing elective surgery, and its associated negative effects.

STM is an age appropriate, customizable program to prepare children for complex surgical procedures by guiding them through the hospital settings. The investigators will examine if STM is effective in reducing PA and its adverse effects in children undergoing surgery. If effective, STM has the potential to improve children's and families' surgical experiences, and reduce health problems in the hospital setting and beyond.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Interactive Virtual Application

Online application via tablet

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Desigen Reddy, MD · Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-11-20
Primary Completion
2025-05-01
Completion
2025-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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