Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01622218
The Impact of Medical Clowning on Pain and Stress Level in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Hernia Repair Surgery LAUGH Study.
The Impact of Medical Clowning on Pain and Stress Level in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Hernia Repair Surgery LAUGH Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 50 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Soroka University Medical Center · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 4 Years – 10 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of our study to quantitatively examine the stress levels prior to surgery and the use of analgesics post surgery in both children and their parents following a preoperative intervention with a medical clown compared to children that were not exposed to this intervention.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Medical Clown | Presence of clowns on child's postoperative pain levels, anxiety levels of the child and the accompanying parent and the effect of the intervention on the total consumption of analgesics and on the post- surgery inflammatory markers |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2012-08-01
- Primary completion
- 2018-12-01
- Completion
- 2018-12-01
- First posted
- 2012-06-19
- Last updated
- 2020-11-12
Locations
2 sites across 1 country: Israel
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01622218. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.