Anxiety Level of Child and Parents During Preoperative Anesthesia Evaluation

N/ACompletedNCT02201680

Istanbul University117 enrolled

Overview

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.

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

117

Conditions

Anxiety State Parent Child

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 6 YearsMax age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Legible Exclusion Criteria: * Illegible due to lack of education or eye diseases

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

children state anxiety

Anxiety scores were filled within 1 hour no further evalution was performed.

Time frame: 1 hour

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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