Impact of a Double-reading Animated Film (Child, Parents) in Preoperative on the Anxiety of Children Upon Arrival at the Operating Room

Impact of a Double-reading Animated Film (Child, Parents) in Preoperative on the Anxiety of Children Upon Arrival at the Operating Room

Preoperative anxiety affects 40 to 60% of children. A literature review concluded that effective preparation strategies must involve parents, must be appropriate to their age and proposed upstream of the intervention.

A double-readinganimated film aimed at informative was created for the children and their parents/legal guardians in order to solve the problem of anxiety found at the arrival of children in the operating room.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Child boy or girl.
• 3 to 7 years old.
• programmed for: removal of tonsils, vegetations, paracentesis or installation of trans-tympanic aerators, pre-heliceal fistula, otoplasty, myringoplasty
• Scheduled intervention in the outpatient department of specialized surgeries or hospitalization of a postoperative night.
• Accompanied by an adult, French-speaking, whose child lives at home.
• Of which the holders of the parental authority formulated their non-opposition to the participation of their child and gave their signed agreement for the realization of videos of their child.
• Assent of the child for children aged 6 to 7
• Parents affiliated to social security

For the group under study only:

- Support available at home that can watch the movie on the internet

Exclusion Criteria:

• Child having already had surgery.
• Presence of associated disability (blindness, profound deafness, autistic disorders).
• Child having anxiolytic treatment.
• Child to be operated within less than 2 days