A gamified mobile health intervention for children in day surgery care: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Arja Rantala; Anna Leena Vuorinen; Jonna Koivisto; Heidi Similä; Otto Helve; Pekka Lahdenne; Minna Pikkarainen; Kadri Haljas; Tarja Pölkki

doi:10.1002/nop2.1143

A gamified mobile health intervention for children in day surgery care: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Arja Rantala^*
, Anna Leena Vuorinen
, Jonna Koivisto
, Heidi Similä
, Otto Helve
, Pekka Lahdenne
, Minna Pikkarainen
, Kadri Haljas
, Tarja Pölkki

^*Corresponding author for this work

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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Abstract

Aims: To describe a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial which will evaluate the effectiveness of a gamified mobile health intervention for children in whole day surgery care. Design: A study protocol for a two-arm randomized controlled trial. Methods: Participants will be randomly assigned to the intervention group (N = 62), in which patients receive routine care and play a mobile game designed for children or the control group (N = 62), in which patients receive routine care, including a mobile phone application that supports parents during the care path. The primary outcome is children's pre-operative anxiety, while the secondary outcome measures included fear and postoperative pain, along with parental satisfaction and anxiety. Data collection started in August 2020. Results: The results of the ongoing randomized controlled trial will determine whether the developed gamified mobile health intervention can be recommended for hospital use, and whether it could be used to educate children about their surgical treatment to decrease anxiety.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1465-1476
Journal	Nursing Open
Volume	9
Issue number	2
Early online date	2 Dec 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1143
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

The research was carried out as part of the ICory (An Intelligent Customer‐driven Solution for Orthopedic and Pediatric Surgery Care) project, which was funded by Business Finland, the Finnish Funding agency, between 2018 and 2021. This study protocol was funded also by Clinical Research Institute HUCH and The Research Foundation of Mannerheim League for Child Welfare in Finland.

Keywords

anxiety
children
pain
protocol
randomized controlled trial
web-based mobile health intervention

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