Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT04312217
Medical Clowning and Patient Experiences in a Children's Hospital
Measuring Patient Experiences in a Children's Hospital With a Medical Clowning Intervention: A Case-Control Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 70 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Helsinki University Central Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 4 Years – 17 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
A case-control study is conducted in Helsinki Children's hospital. Altogether 70 children aged 4-17 years coming for a minor operative procedure including pre-operative cannula insertion will be included. Part of the patients will be exposed to medical clowning intervention and the reference group will be treated preoperatively as routinely without clowns. Emotions, anxiety levels, pain caused by the cannula insertion of the children will be monitored during the day. A survey on the emotions and expectations of the parents will be done.
Detailed description
This study aims to measure experiences of children and their parents during day-surgery in hospital setting. A case-control study is conducted in Helsinki Children's hospital. Altogether 70 children aged 4-17 years coming for a minor operative procedure including pre-operative cannula insertion will be included. Part of the patients will be exposed to medical clowning intervention and the reference group will be treated preoperatively as routinely without clowns. Emotions, anxiety levels, pain caused by the cannula insertion of the children will be monitored during the day. A survey on the emotions and expectations of the parents will be done. A novel digital survey tool will be used to measure patient experiences before and after the insertion of a venous cannula needed for anaesthesia. The research questions are as follows: How does engagement with a medical clown during pre-operative cannulation impact on children and their parents' patient experience? How feasible is a novel data collection tool for measuring patient experience and the impact of an intervention on the patient experience of families?
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Medical clowning | Medical clowning |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-05-14
- Primary completion
- 2018-06-30
- Completion
- 2018-06-30
- First posted
- 2020-03-18
- Last updated
- 2020-03-18
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Finland
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04312217. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.