Practice of decreasing anxiety before surgery in children

Allaying paediatric preoperative anxiety, Where Are We Now? â?? A nationwide survey

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Phase 2Phase 3

Study type

Observational

Source

CTRI

Registry ID

CTRI/2022/07/044441

Enrollment

450

Registered

2022-07-28

Start date

Unknown

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2023-05-29

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: Nil: Nil

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Life members of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists Willing to participate in the study Able to understand English

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Anaesthesiologists practicing outside India. Not willing to participate in the study

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1.To find out adherence to the practice of using anxiety alleviating strategies for preoperative anxiety in children and the reasons of not following them 2.The choice of technique in routine use and reasoning behind the choice 3. Strategies utilised in special situations Timepoint: Preoperative, after 1 hour, after 2 hours	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The secondary objectives were to evaluate the practice in terms of sedative premedication drugs used, behavioural interventions used, the problems encountered, risk benefit of one method over the other.Timepoint: Preoperative, after 1 hour of anaesthesia, after 2 hours	—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactShreya Shah

AIIMS, New Delhi

shreyabs@hotmail.com09892652781

Outcome results