Anxiety Level of Child and Parents During Preoperative Anesthesia Evaluation

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02201680

Enrollment

117

Registered

2014-07-28

Start date

2012-06-30

Completion date

2013-09-30

Last updated

2014-07-28

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Conditions

Anxiety State, Child, Parent

Keywords

anxiety, preoperative

Brief summary

1. Appreciation of preoperative anxiety in children is important for the anesthesiologist. 2. Several factors defined to effect the anxiety levels preoperatively in children such as , age, previous medical encounters , education level and parental anxiety. 3. This information was tested for Turkish children during the preoperative anesthetic evaluation.

Detailed description

1. Before the planned surgery all children accompanying parents filled a questionnaire about the demographics, marital status, economical conditions, education level and other diseases and operations in the family. 2. Both the parent and child filled State and Trait Anxiety tests specially prepared for adults Spielberger Anxiety tests and children defined and validation tests had already been proven. Statistical analysis performed for evaluation.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

6 Years to 18 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Legible

Exclusion criteria

* Illegible due to lack of education or eye diseases

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
children state anxiety	1 hour	Anxiety scores were filled within 1 hour no further evalution was performed.

Outcome results