Self-produced audio-visual animation introduction alleviates preoperative anxiety in pediatric strabismus surgery: a randomized controlled study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital anxiety caused by strabismus surgery has an unpleasant and disturbing feeling for both children and their parents. This study aimed to determine the effect of viewing a self-produced audio-visual animation introduction on preoperative anxiety and emergence agitation of pediatric patients undergoing strabismus surgery.

Methods

In this prospective randomized study, 1 hundred children scheduled for strabismus surgery with aged 3 ~ 6 years. The children were randomly divided into 2 groups (n = 50 for each), Group A: using a self-produced audio-visual animation introduction; Group C: controlled group without audio-visual animation introduction. Children's preoperative anxiety was determined by the modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) at different t

SUBMITTER: Jin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8028828 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature