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Home-Initiated Programme to Prepare for Operation (HIPPO) Study

NCT04271553 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 130

Last updated 2020-02-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

A hospital admission and surgical operation commonly triggers great fear and anxiety to young children. This is caused by either lack of knowledge or misconception. Although parent and families are often given the task to prepare the child for the oncoming surgery, they often lack information and skill to accomplish this task. Although numerous measures such as pre-operative play room, parental companion during induction, distraction therapy have been employed in our institution, this remains to be a challenge for care of young surgical patients.

Our study proposes to use a "prepare-for-operation" (PFO) bundle to assist our paediatric patients and their families to prepare for surgery. The PFO bundle consists of an informative cartoon video illustrating sequence of events occurring in admission, anesthesia and surgery. The video is also accompanied by activity sheets to encourage patient and family to engage, participate and learn about all these events. They will be instructed to use this PFO bundle before admission. We believe that through this off-site and cost-effective intervention, the fear of children undergoing surgery will be significantly alleviated. The family will also have better satisfaction on hospitalization experience. If proven feasible and effective, this will be a simple intervention tool that can be made accessible to all KKH pediatric patients.

Conditions

  • Anxiety
  • Fear of Pain
  • Child Behavior

Interventions

OTHER

Video

In addition to standard workflow, participants will also receive the PFO bundle which consists of: 1) A cartoon video of about 6 minutes duration illustrating the events occurring during admission, anaesthesia and surgery and 2) Sets of activity sheets which have been tailored for different age groups. Families would be encouraged to complete activity sheets together.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • KK Women's and Children's Hospital

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Li Wei Chiang, MBBS · KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-02-01
Primary Completion
2019-04-05
Completion
2019-04-17

Countries

  • Singapore

Study Locations

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