Child Life Intervention to Decrease Anxiety in Patients and Caregivers for Outpatient Surgical Intervention

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Conditions studied: Surgery

In brief

1. Determine preoperative and postoperative levels of anxiety for pediatric patients ages 6-17 related to outpatient surgical intervention using the validated Psychosocial Risk Assessment in Pediatrics (PRAP) assessment tool, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults(STAI-AD), and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAI-CH) 2. Determine preoperative and postoperative levels of anxiety for parent/guardian of pediatric patients ages 6 - 17 related to outpatient surgical intervention using the validate PsychosocialRisk Assessment in Pediatrics (PRAP) assessment tool and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults (STAI-AD). 3. Assess if additional Child Life intervention offered pre-operatively to one group demonstrates differences in PRAP scores compared to control group

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03075059

Run by

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

People needed

72

Starts

2016-02-03

Expected to finish

2019-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2021-05-03

Who can join

Age: 6 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participants will be patients ages 6 - 17 and their families/caregivers that are scheduled for outpatient surgical intervention in the division of pediatric surgery of Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Patients receiving low acute, lower risk procedures will be enrolled

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who may turn 18 during the course of the study will not be eligible for enrollment and will be excluded.

Where it is running

• Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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