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The study is a prospective, randomized, single-blind controlled superiority trial to evaluate the effect of viewing an informative animated video a day prior to surgery on preoperative anxiety in pediatric patients scheduled for elective otoplasty. The primary outcome will be modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) score at the time of general anesthesia induction compared between families that were assigned to view the animated video the day before and those that were not. The participants for this study will be children undergoing elective otoplasty at the IWK Health Centre. Those participants randomized to the intervention group will receive a link to a short survey gauging parent anxiety levels. The survey will be followed by a link to an informative animated video which the participants and their families will watch. The control group will be participants assigned not to receive the email link to the informative animated video.


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NCT number NCT05894187
Study type Interventional
Source IWK Health Centre
Contact Michael Bezuhly, MD
Phone 902 470 8168
Email michael.bezuhly@iwk.nshealt.ca
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date June 1, 2023
Completion date September 2024

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