The Effect of Educational Animation on Anxiety and Fear in Children With Tympanostomy Tube Placement in Pediatric Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age6-10
SponsorBartın Unıversity

About this trial

The study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental research to determine the effect of educational video screening on anxiety and fear in children. All children between the ages of 6-10 years old who underwent ear tube surgery will be included. Children will be randomly assigned to two groups (training video group, control group-standard care). In the training video group, a nurse will explain the process of ear tube surgery to the children with an educational video. The scenario of this educational animation will include information about the preoperative fears of a child who will undergo ear tube surgery, the structure of the ear, what they are most curious about, what the ear tube is, what will happen during and after surgery. In the control-standard care group, the standard information given to all children who had ear tube surgery in the relevant service will be given to the children in the control group. Data will be collected with the Sociodemographic Questionnaire, Child Anxiety Scale-Condition Child Fear Scale before and after surgery.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Being between 6-10 years old

Having ear tube surgery

Signing the informed consent form by the patient's legal guardian

Disqualifiers

Previous surgical operation of the child

The child has had a cleft palate or lip operation before

Conditions that may prevent communication with parents (e.g. language problem)

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Educational animation about the process of ear tube surgery

    Other intervention

    A nurse will explain the process of ear tube surgery to children in an educational video. This educational video scenario includes information about a child's fears before surgery, the structure of the ear, what they are most curious about, what an ear tube is, what happens during and after surgery. The educational video will be made by a person specialized in computer technologies. Artificial intelligence will be used in the vocalization of the educational video. Expert opinion will be taken for the instructional video. The duration of the educational video is planned to be in the range of 3-4 minutes in total.

  • Control-Standard Care

    Other intervention

    The standard information given to all children who had ear tube surgery in the relevant ward will be given to the children in the control group.

Treatment groups

60 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Educational animation about the process of ear tube surgeryExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Control-Standard MaintenanceOther 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

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The mean score of the Children's Anxiety Scale-Situation of the children who watched educational videos after the educaiton video was lower than that of the control group.

The mean score of the Children's Anxiety Scale-Situation of the children who watched educational videos after the educaiton video was lower than that of the control group.

Time frame
12 months
2

The mean score of the Children's Fear Scale of the children who watched educational videos after the education video was lower than that of the control group.

The mean score of the Children's Fear Scale of the children who watched educational videos after the education video was lower than that of the control group.

Time frame
12 months

Secondary outcomes

1

Children who watched educational videos had lower mean scores on the Child Anxiety Scale-Situation after the educational video compared to before the educational video.

Children who watched educational videos had lower mean scores on the Child Anxiety Scale-Situation after the educational video compared to before the educational video.

Time frame
12 months
2

Children who watched educational videos had lower mean scores on the Child Fear Scale after the educational video compared to before.

Children who watched educational videos had lower mean scores on the Child Fear Scale after the educational video compared to before.

Time frame
12 months

Other outcomes

Locations

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Bartın UniversityRecruiting74100, Merkez, BartınTurkey (Türkiye)

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