NCT00452738

The Effect of Pre Surgery Dog Visits on Post Surgery Consumption of Pain Medication

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to examine the effects of pre surgery dog visits as compared to a costumed character or parents-only on the consumption of pain medication after surgery. It is hypothesized that pre surgery dog visits will reduce post surgical stress and anxiety.

Detailed description

Recent research has revealed that children who are highly anxious prior to surgery experienced more problems post surgery. These problems included reporting of more pain and requested more pain medication during hospitalization and home follow up. Consumption of pain medication may not be the optimal pain management program. In contrast, numerous human-animal interaction studies have shown that animals tend to have a calming effect on people, reduce stress, and lesson anxiety. Therefore, the primary objective of this study is to examine the effect of pre surgery dog visits as compared to a costumed character or parents-only on the consumption of pain medication after surgery.

Conditions

• Post Tonsillectomy Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Therapy dog
BEHAVIORAL	Costumed character
BEHAVIORAL	Parents-only

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-04-01
• Completion: 2008-02-01
• First posted: 2007-03-27
• Last updated: 2015-04-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States