NCT04334733

The Impact of Preprocedural Animation About Echocardiography Display and Kaleidoscope Display on Anxiety in Children

Completed NA Last updated 6 April 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Cartoon group in Anxiety in 164 participants. Completed in 25 December 2019.

Timeline

6 October 2018

Primary endpoint
1 February 2019

25 December 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Selcuk University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	164
Start date	6 October 2018
Primary completion	1 February 2019
Estimated completion	25 December 2019
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• Cartoon group
• Kaleidoscope group
• Cartoon+Kaleidoscope group

Conditions studied

• Anxiety — all drugs for Anxiety →
• Child, Only — all drugs for Child, Only →
• Echocardiography — all drugs for Echocardiography →

Sponsor

Selcuk University

Who can join

Adults 5 to 12, any sex, with Anxiety or Child, Only. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Objective: The study was conducted for the purpose of determining the effect of making children aged 5 to 12 years watch a cartoon about echocardiography (ECO) procedure before the procedure and kaleidoscope during the procedure on their anxiety.

Material and Method: It is a randomized controlled study. The study was completed with a total of 164 children who came to have an ECO and met the sample selection criteria. There were four groups in the study which were as follows; the group that was made watch a cartoon about the procedure before the procedure, the group that was made watch a kaleidoscope during the procedure, the group that was made watch a cartoon about the procedure before the procedure and a kaleidoscope during the procedure and the control group in which routine applications of clinic were carried out.

Results: At the end of the study, it was determined that anxiety scores of the cartoon group, cartoon+kaleidoscope group and the kaleidoscope group were lower during the procedure than before the procedure (p\<0,001). In the control group, it was determined that there was no significant difference between the anxiety scores before and during the procedure (p\>0,05).

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.