None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Anxiety is a typical response expected from a child in an unusual circumstance. Pharmacological methods and non-pharmacological methods have been used to reduce the child’s anxiety. We investigated the effects of the pharmacological method of oral midazolam with the non-pharmacological method of playing games on a tablet computer on children with and without anxiety.
Interventions
In this study, we aimed to compare the effects of oral midazolam and tablet computer for premedication in patients with anxiety and non-anxiety in children planned for operations under general anesthesia with the diagnosis of circumcision desire, inguinal hernia, hydrocele and undescended testes. All these interventions are managed by anesthesiologists.
1- Lego Juniors, Talking Tom Cat, Racing Penguin games were added for ages 4-6 and Subway surfers, Air hockey, Cut the rope games were installe
In this study, we aimed to compare the effects of oral midazolam and tablet computer for premedication in patients with anxiety and non-anxiety in children planned for operations under general anesthesia with the diagnosis of circumcision desire, inguinal hernia, hydrocele and undescended testes. All these interventions are managed by anesthesiologists. 1- Lego Juniors, Talking Tom Cat, Racing Penguin games were added for ages 4-6 and Subway surfers, Air hockey, Cut the rope games were installed on tablet computer for ages 7-10. 2- Participants are given a tablet computer 30 minutes before the operation. When the operation ends and the room is taken back to the tablet computer. Approximately 30 minutes after the administration of the tablet computer, the pediatric patient is evaluated in his / her room. The pediatric patient is evaluated when leaving the family to go to the operating room. When inhalation induction is performed, its response to the anesthesia mask is evaluated. 3- Participants are given a tablet computer 30 minutes before the operation. When the operation ends and the room is taken back to the tablet computer. 4- The status of the children in the waiting room, their status when leaving the family, and the response to the anesthesia mask during induction were evaluated observationally.
Sponsors
Dr Behcet Uz Children's Hospital
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
4 Years to 10 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Age 4-10 years American Society of Anesthesiologists score 1 or 2 children were anesthetized for the first time for surgical procedures due to one of the following conditions: circumcision, inguinal hernia, hydrocele, undescended testis, hypospadias.
Exclusion criteria
patients who had previous surgery, motor and mental retardation, or chronic diseases, had been using psychiatric medication, had been planned to undergo more than one operation in the same session, had emergency surgery, or had an ASA score of 3 or 4 were not included in the study.
Outcome results
None listed