Impact of a Breath-controlled Video Game App

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Anxiety Acute

In brief

The proposed research study will assess the impact of a newly developed, breath-controlled app and custom-designed tablet (equipped with a breathing sensor) on the patient and parent's preoperative anxiety and anesthesia induction experience.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04000646

Run by

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

People needed

55

Starts

2019-06-26

Expected to finish

2021-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-01-29

Who can join

Age: 3 and older, up to 8. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Presenting to Same Day Surgery department at CCHMC Liberty campus
• Outpatient or 23 hour admission
• Any surgery or procedure under anesthesia
• Ages 3 to 8 years
• Male or female
• Any ethnicity
• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical classification status I or II
• Patient has never had a prior anesthetic
• Family and participant communicate primarily in English \& signed English anesthesia consent
• Normal neurocognitive development
• Patient is undergoing inhalation induction using an anesthesia mask
• Parent/guardian is present for induction
• Patient does not receive a premedication for anxiety

You may not qualify if…

• Neurocognitive delays
• Developmental delays/Behavioral diagnoses, such as (but not limited to) ADHD, Autism, Oppositional defiant disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety disorder
• Patient takes medications routinely for behavioral issues
• Tracheostomy
• Inpatient or planned >23 hour admission

Where it is running

• Cincinnati Children's Hospital — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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