Viewing of a song-based videotape by pre-school aged children to reduce their anxiety before anaesthesia is commenced using a face mask.

A novel technique for reducing paediatric perioperative anxiety - Children 3-6 years old randomised to watch a video depicting the anaesthesia face mask in a playful fashion - assessing level of anxiety at anaesthesia induction in children who watched the video compared with those who did not.

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12612001283864

Acronym

FAMUS

Enrollment

100

Registered

2012-12-12

Start date

2013-06-03

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

70% of children experience significant pre-operative anxiety and their anxiety levels peak at the time of mask induction. This study aims to familiarise children with the anaesthesia face mask prior to induction of anaesthesia with a cheap and readily available intervention: a playful, song based video that children will enjoy watching.

Interventions

Viewing of a video depicting the anaesthesia face mask in a playful manner, using song and characters which have relevance to pre-schoolers. the characters in the video portray the face mask as being an object of fun. The video will be viewed as close as possible to induction, at the point that children are about to be trasported to the operating theatre holding area, ie within 1 hour of induction. The video itself will be brief, <5min.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Primary purpose

Prevention

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

3 Years to 6 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Children aged 3-6 scheduled for mask induction of anaesthesia, ASA 1 or 2, having their first ever anaesthetic, who speak English as their first language

Exclusion criteria

Diagnosed behavioural disorders or developmental delay, English not their first language, history of chronic illness or birth at <36 weeks, children who were prescibed sedative premedication

Outcome results