The Effect of Educational Animation on Anxiety and Fear in Children With Tympanostomy Tube Placement in Pediatric Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Educational animation about the process of ear tube surgery: A nurse will explain the process of ear tube surgery to children in an educational video. This educational video scenario includes information about a child's fears before surgery, the structure of the ear, what they are most curious about, what an ear tube is, what happens during and after surgery. The educational video will be made by a person specialized in computer technologies. Artificial intelligence will be used in the vocalization of the educational video. Expert opinion will be taken for the instructional video. The duration of the educational video is planned to be in the range of 3-4 minutes in total.

Control-Standard Care: The standard information given to all children who had ear tube surgery in the relevant ward will be given to the children in the control group.

Study summary

The study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental research to determine the effect of educational video screening on anxiety and fear in children. All children between the ages of 6-10 years old who underwent ear tube surgery will be included. Children will be randomly assigned to two groups (training video group, control group-standard care). In the training video group, a nurse will explain the process of ear tube surgery to the children with an educational video. The scenario of this educational animation will include information about the preoperative fears of a child who will undergo ear tube surgery, the structure of the ear, what they are most curious about, what the ear tube is, what will happen during and after surgery. In the control-standard care group, the standard information given to all children who had ear tube surgery in the relevant service will be given to the children in the control group. Data will be collected with the Sociodemographic Questionnaire, Child Anxiety Scale-Condition Child Fear Scale before and after surgery.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• The mean score of the Children's Anxiety Scale-Situation of the children who watched educational videos after the educaiton video was lower than that of the control group. — 12 months
  The mean score of the Children's Anxiety Scale-Situation of the children who watched educational videos after the educaiton video was lower than that of the control group.
• The mean score of the Children's Fear Scale of the children who watched educational videos after the education video was lower than that of the control group. — 12 months
  The mean score of the Children's Fear Scale of the children who watched educational videos after the education video was lower than that of the control group.

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