NCT00581139

Psychological Influences on Postoperative Recovery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 241 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Irvine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary hypothesis tested in this project is that the preoperative behavioral stress response predicts postoperative behavioral and clinical recovery of children undergoing surgery.

Conditions

• Care, Postoperative
• Pain, Postoperative
• Surgical Procedures, Operative
• Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures
• Tonsillectomy
• Adenoidectomy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Preoperative Preparation Program (Child Life Specialist)	This group will receive the standard preoperative visit to the hospital with Child Life intervention
DRUG	Midazolam	0.5 mg/kg oral midazolam
BEHAVIORAL	Parental Presence during Induction of Anesthesia	One parent will be present during induction of anesthesia of the child. The parent will be accompanied out of the OR by a nurse once the induction is completed. These parents will have completed a parent preparation program.
OTHER	PPIA preparation program PLUS Midazolam premedication	Subjects in this group will receive both interventions 2 and 3.

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-04-01
• Primary completion: 2009-04-01
• Completion: 2009-04-01
• First posted: 2007-12-27
• Last updated: 2023-09-07
• Results posted: 2023-09-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States