NCT04277299

Intelligent Customer-driven Solution for Children and Their Parents Undergoing Day Surgery

Intelligent Customer-driven Solution for Children and Their Parents Undergoing Children´s Day Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Oulu · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of web-based mobile intervention (Icory -Solution) developed to pediatric patients and their parents in the pathway of outpatient surgery treatment in pre-intra- and postoperative setting: (1) Examine the effectiveness of the intervention on children's preoperative anxiety and fear, and postoperative pain (2) examine the effectiveness of the intervention on parental anxiety and satisfaction in children´s care path and (3) examine the experiences of the gamification in children in the intervention group.

Detailed description

Children and their families are entitled to know what is going to happen to them before undergoing day surgery and information must be based on the child's age and understanding. It is important to help children to cope with any upcoming surgery because the more anxious and fear they are, the more pain they experience after the day surgery. Digital gaming solutions could help families and children to be better oriented to the coming treatment. Icory -solution is a digital pathway for children and family and it contains a virtual tour to hospital and distraction games for children. The information on the application is aligned with the patient's individual needs based on the type of surgery and requirements.

Conditions

• Tonsillitis
• Herniorrhaphies
• Surgery
• Children
• Parents

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	IcorySolution	The ICory-solution programme is designed to be a self-guided and healthcare professional-led. Participants will have access to BuddyCare for parents and Triumf Health from time of recruitment till 2 weeks after surgery. The healthcare professional have received face-to-face training on how to use the BuddyCare dashboard and BuddyCare has been in the hospital in earlier studies.The Buddy Healthcare mobile app (BuddyCare) that provides a comprehensive day-by-day perioperative guide for parents regarding their child's surgery with an interface for health care professionals to monitor parents' and their children's needs as well as communicate with them. (2) The Triumf Health mobile game app that provides emotional support, games and distraction to children and a virtual tour to the hospital before children´s operation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-12
• Primary completion: 2021-08-31
• Completion: 2022-02-03
• First posted: 2020-02-20
• Last updated: 2022-02-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland