The Effects of Wearing Operation Gown With Cartoon Characters on Reducing Preoperative Anxiety in Children: Randomized Controlled Study

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age4-12
SponsorUludag University

About this trial

The operating room environment can be frightening for pediatric patients. Many techniques have been used to make the operating room environment less intimidating, including allowing parents to accompany part of this procedure, play therapy and various distraction strategies during the entrance to the operating room. In a survey study, it was reported that parents were expected to create hospital conditions with a more child-friendly atmosphere. In this context, it is thought that creating a warmer environment for children, including the clothes worn in the operating room, may reduce the anxiety level of children. In this study, investigators' aim was to investigate the effect of wearing an hospital gown with cartoon characters on the reduction of preoperative anxiety in children scheduled for Orthopedic surgery by in the operating room.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Patients who are planned to have elective orthopedic surgery

Patients whose American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification are between 1-3

Patients who have approved the informed consent form

Disqualifiers

Motor and/or mentally retarded patients

Patients with hearing-speech impairment

Patients whose ASA physical status classification IV-V

Patients who do not accept informed consent and/or refused to participate in the study

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • The hospital gown with cartoon characters

    Other intervention

    The patient will be asked to choose one of the hospital gowns with cartoon characters they want to wear and put it on with parental assistance.

Treatment groups

160 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Children wearing the hospital gown with cartoon charactersExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Children with standard hospital gownNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale

investigators evaluate children using the verified Turkish version of modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale.

Time frame
1 day

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

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