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Perioperative Preparation Application Developed for Children and Parents

NCT07062835 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 194

Last updated 2026-05-08

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Summary

Approaches to increase the compliance of children and parents in daily surgical interventions in children are limited. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical usability of the Paediatric Perioperative Preparation Game Application-PeroPap, which will be developed to prepare children and parents for day surgery. The secondary aim is to investigate its effect on the perioperative adaptation process of children and parents, children's symptoms such as pain, anxiety, nausea, vomiting and postoperative behavioural changes, and parents' anxiety and satisfaction.

Conditions

  • Surgery

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Perioperative Paediatric Application

Children in the experimental group will start receiving interactive perioperative preparation training with the PeroPap application 1 day before surgery and play the PeroPap game. Children will learn about the operation process by watching and playing the PeroPap character's cartoon story about the operation process. They will also listen to the song "PeroPap is having surgery" and play the "PeroPap Game" in the application, which they can play before and after surgery. At the same time, in the parent module, information will be provided for parents with the cartoon story "PeroPap is Having Surgery".

OTHER

Control

In order to meet the perioperative health care needs of the children and their parents in the control group, when they applied to the outpatient clinic for anaesthesia consultation on the working day before the operation, standard individualised care interventions will be provided according to their needs preoperatively and until their discharge, and children and parents will be given surgery preparation training with the education booklet "PeroPap is Having Surgery".

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Health Institutes of Turkey

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Dilek Kucuk Alemdar

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-03
Primary Completion
2025-10-30
Completion
2025-11-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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