Paediatric Peri-operative Anxiety: Does the Little Journey App Help?

Other illness

• Children undergoing diagnostic procedures (e.g. scans, cardiac catheterisation)
• American Society of Anesthetists physical status class IV-VI
  • Class IV: A patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life.
  • Class V: A moribund patient who is not expected to survive without the operation.

Age

• Children aged less than 3 years of age or more than 12 years' old on the date of parental consent

Other

• Any child and/or parent that refuses to be part of the study
• Patients and parents who do not speak one of the languages which are available on the app
• Any child with a visual or hearing impairments significant enough to prevent use of the intervention as decided on case-by-case basis.

• Children aged between 3-12 years of age on the date of parental consent to participate in the trial
• Those undergoing surgery planned to be conducted as a day-case (surgery is defined as any therapeutic procedure taking place under the care of an anaesthetist and surgeon or dentist)
• Requiring general anaesthetic (must be their first general anaesthetic)
• Both child and parent able to speak / understand one of the languages available on the app
• American Society of Anesthesiologists' physical status class I-III
  • Class I: A normal healthy patient
  • Class II: A patient with mild systemic disease
  • Class III: A patient with severe systemic disease
  • Note: Surgery is defined as any procedure occurring in a theatre under the care of a surgeon or dentist and an anaesthetist.