Intelligent Customer-driven Solution for Children and Their Parents Undergoing Day Surgery

Summary

This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of web-based mobile intervention (Icory -Solution) developed to pediatric patients and their parents in the pathway of outpatient surgery treatment in pre-intra- and postoperative setting: (1) Examine the effectiveness of the intervention on children's preoperative anxiety and fear, and postoperative pain (2) examine the effectiveness of the intervention on parental anxiety and satisfaction in children´s care path and (3) examine the experiences of the gamification in children in the intervention group.

Conditions

• Tonsillitis
• Herniorrhaphies
• Surgery
• Children
• Parents

Interventions

DEVICE

IcorySolution

The ICory-solution programme is designed to be a self-guided and healthcare professional-led. Participants will have access to BuddyCare for parents and Triumf Health from time of recruitment till 2 weeks after surgery. The healthcare professional have received face-to-face training on how to use the BuddyCare dashboard and BuddyCare has been in the hospital in earlier studies.The Buddy Healthcare mobile app (BuddyCare) that provides a comprehensive day-by-day perioperative guide for parents regarding their child's surgery with an interface for health care professionals to monitor parents' and their children's needs as well as communicate with them. (2) The Triumf Health mobile game app that provides emotional support, games and distraction to children and a virtual tour to the hospital before children´s operation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

  collaborator OTHER

• Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa

  collaborator OTHER

• Tampere University

  collaborator OTHER

• Buddy Healthcare Ltd

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Oulu

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Pekka Lahdenne · New Children´s Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

7 Years

Max Age

12 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-08-12

Primary Completion

2021-08-31

Completion

2022-02-03

Countries

• Finland

Study Locations