Anxiety and Chronic Postsurgical Pain Following Ambulatory Surgery in Children

Anxiety and Chronic Postsurgical Pain Following Ambulatory Surgery in Children

Prospective, monocentric, observationnal study. The primary objective of this study is to identify if presurgical child or/and parental anxiety is predictive of chronic postsurgical pain in abdominal or urologic ambulatory surgery.

The post surgical pain guidelines recommend to identify predictive factors, especially for vulnerable subjects.

For children, there is few data about predictive factors of postoperative pain after ambulatory surgery.

The objective of this study is to collect preoperative data (preoperative children's anxiety and parental anxiety) and postoperative data (postoperative pain measure: the day of surgery and 3 months after surgery) for children undergoing abdominal ou urologic ambulatory surgery, and to determine if there is a relationship between these data (Odds Ratio)

Inclusion Criteria:

• child from 3 to 18 years old
• undergoing scheduled urology or abdominal ambulatory surgery
• child and parents speaking French
• affiliation to national health insurance

Exclusion Criteria:

• emergency surgery
• lack of parents consent
• no parental support on surgery day