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Impact on Anxiety of a Digital Application for Children Undergoing Scheduled Ambulatory Surgery

NCT06227663 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 98

Last updated 2024-01-29

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Summary

The prospect of pediatric surgery is a source of preoperative anxiety for children and their parents. It affects 50% of children waiting for surgery and the causes vary according to age. It has been shown that pre-operative anxiety in children often leads to behavioral changes. Pre-operative anxiety is often managed by pharmacological premedication. However, there are many alternative techniques to reduce children's anxiety before surgery.

The use of an application dedicated to pediatric anesthesia used from the moment of the anesthesia consultation would allow to reduce this anxiety by allowing a varied course of information involving the child in his preparation before the surgery.

First, it allows an evaluation of the pre-operative anxiety level of children via validated scales. Secondly, it provides information to the children using methods adapted to their age and level of understanding.

Thus, if this method were validated, other hospitals could use this application to develop a tool that would benefit the many children who undergo surgery each year.

Conditions

  • Anxiety Postoperative

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

KOALOU(®) digital application

Digital app that prepares children for the ambulatory surgery care pathway by assessing their anxiety and educating them about anesthesia and surgery

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes

    lead NETWORK

Study Design

Allocation
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
2021-08-19
Primary Completion
2022-09-15
Completion
2022-09-22

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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