A Mobile Application for Child-focused Perioperative Education

Description

The investigators developed a child-friendly mobile application to support accessible, interactive patient/caregiver education about pediatric tonsillectomy. This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate whether the intervention reduces preoperative anxiety, improves patients' confidence and positive coping, improves caregivers' satisfaction and self-efficacy, and reduces call volumes from caregivers to the clinic after surgery compared to current standard care.

Conditions

Preoperative Anxiety

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The investigators developed a child-friendly mobile application to support accessible, interactive patient/caregiver education about pediatric tonsillectomy. This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate whether the intervention reduces preoperative anxiety, improves patients' confidence and positive coping, improves caregivers' satisfaction and self-efficacy, and reduces call volumes from caregivers to the clinic after surgery compared to current standard care.

A Mobile Application for Child-focused Perioperative Education: A Randomized Controlled Trial

A Mobile Application for Child-focused Perioperative Education

Condition
Preoperative Anxiety
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Atlanta

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Pediatric patients ages 5-13 years (inclusive) scheduled for a tonsillectomy, along with their caregivers.
  • * Patients/caregivers who do not speak English and/or Spanish, do not have a mobile device, or are unable to give consent and assent.

Ages Eligible for Study

5 Years to 13 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta,

Kara K Prickett, MD, FACS, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta; Emory University School of Medicine

Study Record Dates

2024-06