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Anxiety StateEVALINFNCT03977948

Qualitative and Systemic Assessment of a Nurse Intervention an Inpatient Child and His or Her Parents

An observational study of Anxiety State and Surgery, run by Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue at 1 site in France.

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Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The hospitalization of a child for cardiac surgery is a major event in a family's life. Some factors induced by surgery can have serious psychological consequences and cause high stress and anxiety in the child but also in the parents. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 6 to 12 years
Conditions the study is for
Anxiety State, Surgery, Pediatric Disorder
What is being tested?
semi-structured systemic interview
How many people
10 participants
Where
1 siteFrance
Study dates
16 Oct 2018to 31 Aug 2019
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 6 to 12 years
  • All sexes
  • Child

Study population: The child with his family

Who may be able to join

  • Children aged 6 to 12 years hospitalized for open-heart surgery
  • Children who have participated in the daily surgical preparation activity provided by M3 nurses to families whose child is hospitalized for open-heart surgery.
  • Ability to understand and speak French
  • The parent (biological or adoptive) must have participated in the activity of preparation for surgery.

Who cannot join

  • Child with a psychological pathology diagnosed in the medical file or notified by the parents at the first contact (autism, depression...)
  • Children with cognitive problems that do not allow the interviews diagnosed in the medical file or notified by the parents at the first contact to take place
  • Genetic syndrome

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

France1 site
  • Hôpital Marie Lannelongue

    Le Plessis-Robinson, 92350

Other trials in France

About this study

Official title: Qualitative and Systemic Assessment of a Family Health Nurse Intervention Through Play, Which Aims to Prepare an Inpatient Child and His or Her Parents for Heart Surgery

The hospitalization of a child for cardiac surgery is a major event in a family's life. Some factors induced by surgery can have serious psychological consequences and cause high stress and anxiety in the child but also in the parents. Many interventions have been tested to reduce this anxiety generated by apprehension of the surgical procedure, but there is no evidence to date that would allow health care services to effectively prepare these families for surgery. The authors encourage researchers to continue research on this subject in order to confirm or refute their results.

Read the detailed description

The hospitalization of a child for surgery is a major event that can disrupt a family's life. Indeed, whatever the degree of severity and type of pathology that leads to hospitalization, a stay in hospital is often synonymous with stress and fear, both for the child and for parents. A lack of knowledge of care procedures, the feeling of not being able to control the situation and a lack of explanations in terms adapted to their age are all factors that contribute to the vulnerability of children hospitalized for surgery.

Preoperative anxiety can be defined as an overflow of the child's ability to cope with stress, induced by the fear of surgery. Significant preoperative anxiety could increase the risk of post-operative complications and promote emotional and behavioural disorders such as: insecurity, guilt, anger, anger, regression, withdrawal or rebellion, it could also have the effect of limiting the child's ability to cope with surgery, encouraging negative behaviours related to health care, but also inhibiting post-operative recovery. These behavioural disorders induced by preoperative anxiety may persist once hospitalization is completed and the family returns home. In addition, if the operating experience is negative, the child may develop separation anxiety or even phobia following surgery and in extreme cases acute stress or even post-traumatic stress. The risk for the child to develop one of these disorders following surgery is increased by the frequency and duration of the anxiety episodes to which he or she will be subjected.

Parents of children hospitalized for surgery would also experience very high stress, related to their perception of their child's state of health, apprehension of invasive treatments, as well as fear of sequelae that could be caused by certain invasive treatments or because of their child's pathology. It is therefore important, during hospitalization and surgery, to take into consideration the anxiety of the child, but also of his or her parents, and to consider how best to manage this anxiety in order to prevent complications.

Being tested
semi-structured systemic interview
Keywords
cardiac surgery pediatric, preoperative anxiety
Medical subject headings
Anxiety Disorders

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • semi-structured systemic interviewOther

    Semi-structured systemic interviews will be conducted with families who have benefited from the preparation for surgery through play. Other tools such as the logbook and the socio-demographic questionnaire will also be used. The themes that will emerge from these interviews will provide a better understanding of what these families are going through, how the proposed intervention may or may not have met their expectations, and provide insights so that health care services can build their own surgical preparation programs.

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Questionnaire

    parents's and children's feelings about the nurse's preparation : Advantages and disadvantages, open- Questionnaire

    Measured: 1 day

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted6 Jun 2019
  2. Study start16 Oct 2018
  3. Primary completion15 Apr 2019
  4. Study completion31 Aug 2019

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Other
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
10 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03977948
Sponsor's protocol ID
2018-A01623-52
Acronym
EVALINF
Status last verified
May 2019
First submitted
20 May 2019
Last updated
4 Aug 2021
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Anxiety State and Surgery, run by Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue at 1 site in France.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 4 Aug 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Questionnaire (time frame: 1 day). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 4 Aug 2021.

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