NCT05894187

The Impact of an Animated Video on Preoperative Anxiety in Children Undergoing Elective Otoplasty

Exploring the Effects of an Informative Animated Video on Preoperative Anxiety in Children Undergoing Elective Otoplasty and Their Parents

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: IWK Health Centre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study is a prospective, randomized, single-blind controlled superiority trial to evaluate the effect of viewing an informative animated video a day prior to surgery on preoperative anxiety in pediatric patients scheduled for elective otoplasty. The primary outcome will be modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) score at the time of general anesthesia induction compared between families that were assigned to view the animated video the day before and those that were not. The participants for this study will be children undergoing elective otoplasty at the IWK Health Centre. Those participants randomized to the intervention group will receive a link to a short survey gauging parent anxiety levels. The survey will be followed by a link to an informative animated video which the participants and their families will watch. The control group will be participants assigned not to receive the email link to the informative animated video.

Conditions

• Pre-operative Anxiety
• Otoplasty
• Paediatric Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	animated video	Participants randomized to the intervention group will receive a link to a short survey gauging parent anxiety levels three days prior to their childs surgery date. If randomly assigned to watch the informative animated video, the survey will be followed by a link to a video which families are free to watch prior to your child's surgery date. Once participants and there family watch the video, they will be asked to rate the quality of the video on a scale of 0 (very bad) to 10 (excellent). Responses to this question will be used to confirm that participants watched the video to the end.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-01
• Primary completion: 2024-06-01
• Completion: 2024-09-01
• First posted: 2023-06-08
• Last updated: 2024-03-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada