NCT04796077

Preparing Children for Anesthesia With an Educational Pop-Up Book

Efficacy of an Educational Pop-Up Book in Preparing Children for Anesthesia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 148 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study evaluated an educational pop-up book about general anesthesia induction as an interactive, child-focused preoperative education resource for pediatric patients undergoing outpatient surgery. The study's objectives were to evaluate the book as an educational tool and to understand the book's effects on patient and caregiver perceptions of the surgical experience. The study's hypotheses were that preoperative education from the pop-up book, compared to standard care, would more effectively reduce children's fear and expected pain, facilitate more positive views of the procedure and preoperative explanations, encourage adaptive coping strategies, reduce behavioral anxiety at anesthesia induction, and increase caregiver satisfaction with the surgical experience.

Conditions

• Pediatric Preoperative Anxiety, Pediatric Coping

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pop-Up Book	Patients spent 5-10 minutes reading an illustrated pop-up book that promoted active learning about the process of general anesthesia induction.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-26
• Primary completion: 2020-12-18
• Completion: 2020-12-18
• First posted: 2021-03-12
• Last updated: 2021-03-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States