150
Participants
Start Date
August 15, 2025
Primary Completion Date
April 15, 2026
Study Completion Date
July 30, 2026
Mobile phone video game distraction
Children in the intervention group will play age-appropriate, non-violent mobile phone video games for approximately 20 minutes before induction of anesthesia. This is intended as a distraction technique to reduce preoperative anxiety and improve postoperative pain outcomes. Participants will also receive standard perioperative care.
Standard peri operative care
Standard preoperative and postoperative care according to institutional protocol, without mobile phone video game distraction.
Department of Pediatric Surgery ,Services Institute of Medical Sciences/Services Hospital Lahore, Lahore
Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Pakistan
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Fatima Numeri
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