Study of the Impact of a Pediatric Nurse's Consultation on Parental Anxiety During a Febrile Convulsion in Children

NCT ID: NCT05947006

Last Updated: 2025-07-09

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

8 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-04-22

Study Completion Date

2025-03-04

Brief Summary

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Febrile seizures are considered a very common syndrome presented in the pediatric emergency room. Witnessing these seizures may can cause anxiety in parents and generate them psychological sequelae such as major depressive disorder in the short term, or sleep disorders in the long term.

An appropriate care for parents must be put in place in the emergency department, with the objective of improving their knowledge of this pathology and its care, and thus to reduce their anxiety and prevent potential inappropriate or even deleterious behavior and maneuvers towards the child.

Detailed Description

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Febrile seizures occupy a large place in pediatric practice in the emergency room, their prevalence varies between 3 and 8% in children under 7 years old, hence the notion of a very common syndrome.

When parents witness this event, they can experience it as terrifying, and which can alone cause anxiety and generate psychological sequelae. In the literature, it is described that a third of the parents present a major depressive disorder after the event and a third of the parents still describe sleep disorders after one year.

After the arrival at the pediatric emergency room following the febrile seizure, the priority is given to the care of the child and parents are given succinct medical information. Due to parental anxiety, which may still be significant at this time, this information may not be understood. All of this can make the parent's level of knowledge about this pathology and its management low, potentially leading to future behaviors and maneuvers (such as shaking) that are inappropriate or even harmful to the child.

A different course with appropriate care for parents must be put in place in the emergency department, with the objective of improving their knowledge of this pathology, its care and to reduce parent's anxiety. This is why the CONSULFE childcare consultation is proposed in this research.

Conditions

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Febrile Seizure

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Prospective, controlled, non-randomized single-center pilot study.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Standard care

Patients in this arm will receive the standard care stablished in the emergency room after a febrile seizure

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Standard care

Intervention Type OTHER

Patients in this arm will receive the standard care stablished in the emergency room after a febrile seizure, consisting of a medical assessment of the child, followed by 6 hours of supervision of the child and his parent in the waiting room, a reassessment of the child by the doctor, and finally they can return home

CONSULFE Consultation

Patients in this arm will receive a consultation managed by the pediatric nurse (CONSULFE)

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

CONSULFE consultation

Intervention Type OTHER

In addition to the standard care, patients in this arm will receive a consultation managed by the pediatric nurse (CONSULFE) during the 6 hour supervision time in the waiting room

Interventions

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Standard care

Patients in this arm will receive the standard care stablished in the emergency room after a febrile seizure, consisting of a medical assessment of the child, followed by 6 hours of supervision of the child and his parent in the waiting room, a reassessment of the child by the doctor, and finally they can return home

Intervention Type OTHER

CONSULFE consultation

In addition to the standard care, patients in this arm will receive a consultation managed by the pediatric nurse (CONSULFE) during the 6 hour supervision time in the waiting room

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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Consultation managed by the pediatric nurse

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Participant being an adult parent who attended the febrile seizure of their child aged 1 to 5, episode lasting less than 15 minutes occurring within 24 hours
* Participant having signed the free and informed consent
* Affiliation to a social security scheme

Exclusion Criteria

* Parent who already has experience of febrile seizures in one of the siblings
* Parent of a child with a convulsive or neurological history
* Non-French speaking parents
* Parent with a diagnosed psychiatric illness
* Parent benefiting from a legal protection measure
* Parent participating in a study related to the management of anxiety
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University Hospital, Toulouse

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Alex BRIGAND

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital, Toulouse

Locations

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CHU Toulouse

Toulouse, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

References

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Tison-Chambellan C, Fine A, Cances C, Chaix Y, Claudet I. [Anthropological approach to current parental perceptions of children's seizures]. Arch Pediatr. 2013 Oct;20(10):1075-82. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2013.07.001. Epub 2013 Aug 7. French.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23932660 (View on PubMed)

Balslev T. Parental reactions to a child's first febrile convulsion. A follow-up investigation. Acta Paediatr Scand. 1991 Apr;80(4):466-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1991.tb11883.x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 2058397 (View on PubMed)

Kolahi AA, Tahmooreszadeh S. First febrile convulsions: inquiry about the knowledge, attitudes and concerns of the patients' mothers. Eur J Pediatr. 2009 Feb;168(2):167-71. doi: 10.1007/s00431-008-0724-z. Epub 2008 May 7.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 18461360 (View on PubMed)

Paul SP, Rogers E, Wilkinson R, Paul B. Management of febrile convulsion in children. Emerg Nurse. 2015 May;23(2):18-25. doi: 10.7748/en.23.2.18.e1431.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25952398 (View on PubMed)

Smith DK, Sadler KP, Benedum M. Febrile Seizures: Risks, Evaluation, and Prognosis. Am Fam Physician. 2019 Apr 1;99(7):445-450.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 30932454 (View on PubMed)

Walsh A, Edwards H, Fraser J. Influences on parents' fever management: beliefs, experiences and information sources. J Clin Nurs. 2007 Dec;16(12):2331-40. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01890.x. Epub 2007 Apr 5.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17419783 (View on PubMed)

Klotz KA, Ozcan J, Sag Y, Schonberger J, Kaier K, Jacobs J. Anxiety of families after first unprovoked or first febrile seizure - A prospective, randomized pilot study. Epilepsy Behav. 2021 Sep;122:108120. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108120. Epub 2021 Jun 15.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 34144460 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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RC31/22/0484

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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