Medical clowns reduce pre-operative anxiety, post-operative pain and medical costs in children undergoing outpatient penile surgery: A randomised controlled trial
| Autor: | Sol Jaworowski, Yakov Gozal, Israel A. Ostrovsky, Yaniv Hen, Stanislav Kocherov, Boris Chertin, Arthur I. Eidelman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Pain medication Pre operative law.invention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Meatotomy Randomized controlled trial law 030225 pediatrics Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Physical therapy medicine Anxiety 030212 general & internal medicine medicine.symptom Penile surgery business Medical costs Post operative pain |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 52:877-881 |
| ISSN: | 1034-4810 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jpc.13242 |
| Popis: | Aim The aim of this paper is to investigate prospectively the potential benefits of the participation of the medical clowns in the outpatient paediatric penile surgery programme. Methods Eighty children undergoing meatotomy, age 2 to 16 years, were randomised into two groups (40 each). In the first group, the medical clown was an integral part of the medical team, and in the second group, the treatment was given without participation of the medical clown. The following parameters were measured: the level of pre-operative anxiety, the level of the post-operative pain, the amount of pain medication use in the first 24 h after surgery and the time needed to return to normal activities. The operating room time and hospital costs were calculated. Results The patients from the first group demonstrated a lower pre-operative anxiety index upon (P = 0.0319) and after surgery (P = 0.0042), required less induction time for anaesthesia (P |
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