Cerebral Palsy, Muscle Hypertonia
Conditions
Keywords
botulinum toxin, anxiety reduction, pain reduction, medical clowns, distraction
Brief summary
In children requiring botulinum toxin injections, improving supervisory procedures of injection sessions to reduce pain and improve the experience of this invasive procedure is needed. The intervention of medical clowns seems very interesting in this goal, but its effectiveness has not been proven within the botulinum toxin injections. The objective of the study is to evaluate in terms of profit the presence or absence of clowns during a session of botulinum toxins by determining their impact on pain and anxiety felt among children and their carers
Detailed description
In the literature, the presence of clowns allows a major reduction of pain and anxiety in children and their accompanying in various medical and hospital surgical settings. A previous study on a population of 60 children was conducted to assess the impact of the presence of clowns during the production of botulinum toxin injection in children but not confirming the benefit of their participation in carrying this medical procedure. The results of this study are opposed to current scientific data. Their impact clown assessment criteria seem however insufficient to actually support the conclusion as to the ineffectiveness of distractibility clowns in this specific medical procedure iterative injection of botulinum toxin. The objective of the study is to evaluate the pain and anxiety before and after the botulinum toxin injection session in children and hetero-assessment of pain and anxiety by accompanying depending on the presence or not of clown. The second objectives are the evaluation of the course of the session by the injector doctor, the accompanying of the child and to evaluated the effect of distraction during the toxin of the clown or the usual distraction (music, movie...)
Interventions
BEHAVIORALdistraction
Children will all benefit toxin injections with the same protocol. Only the distraction will be different during the session: either the children will have a distraction realized by the team of clowns / or children will benefit a classic distraction (TV, music, ...)
Sponsors
University Hospital, Brest
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
2 Years to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Children aged 1 to 18 years * Children with a neurogenic spasticity (cerebral palsy, spastic paraplegia, head trauma ...) * Children with muscular pains orthopedic disorders (POPB, equino varus, ..) * Botulinum Toxin Injection functional target, improvement in pain or amplitudes * First injection or repeated injections of toxins * No opposition formalized
Exclusion criteria
* Children between 0 and 1 year * Opposition formalized to the data use
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pain assessment by a hetero evaluator at the time of toxin injections | 1 hour | Evaluation of the pain child during botulinum toxin with the FLACC (Face Legs Activity Cry Consolability) by a hetero evaluator |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation of anxiety before the injections of botulinum toxins by the child and assessment by a accompanying person | 1 hour | evaluation of the anxiety before the botulinum toxin by the use of a VAS anxiety scale for the children and their accompanying person |
| Evaluation of pain and anxiety after the botulinum toxin injection session in children and the accompanying person depending on the presence or not of clowns | 1 hour | evaluation of the anxiety after the botulinum toxin by the use of a VAS anxiety scale for the children and their accompanying person |
| Evaluation of the course of the session of botulinum toxin by the injector doctor | 1 hour | Evaluation of the progress of the botulinum toxins session by the injector doctor on a scale of 0-4 (0 bad conduct and 4 very smooth conduct of the session) |
| Evaluation of the course of the session of botulinum toxin by the accompanying person | 1 hour | Evaluation of the progress of the botulinum toxins session by the accompanying person on a scale of 0-4 (0 bad conduct and 4 very smooth conduct of the session) |
| Evaluation of the effect of distraction during the session of botulinum toxin with the usual distraction (music, movie, ...) or the participation of the clown(s) distraction | 1 hour | Evaluation of the effect of distraction establishment on a scale of 0 to 4 estimated in the accompanying person (0 bad conduct and 4 very smooth conduct of the session) |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed