Children's Anxiety and Fear Before Circumcision

NCT ID: NCT07203820

Last Updated: 2025-10-02

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-02-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-06-20

Brief Summary

This study was planned as a randomized controlled trial to investigate the effect of ready-made picture template coloring activity on children's anxiety and fear before circumcision. Data is planned to be collected between November 2024 and February 2025 with children between the ages of 5-10 who are planned to be circumcised in a hospital in the Southeastern Anatolia Region. The study consists of painting and control groups. The group in which the participants will be included will be determined by the stratified randomization method. The anxiety status of the children in the painting and control groups will be evaluated using the Children's State Anxiety (CSA) and their fears will be evaluated using the Children's Fear Scale (CFS) based on the reports of both the mother and the child before and after painting. Data collection will be completed before the child is circumcised.

Conditions

Anxiety; Fear

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Ready-Made Picture Template Painting Activity

The child will be asked to go to the child with the ready-made picture template and coloring pencils and color the given picture with the colors they want.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Ready-Made Picture Template Painting Activity

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The purpose of the study will be explained to the children and their parents before the painting process and verbal and written consent will be obtained from the parents who agree to participate in the study. The child will be asked to go to the child with the ready-made picture template and coloring pencils and color the given picture with the colors they want. Children's anxiety will be assessed using the Children's State Anxiety (CSA) and their fears will be assessed using the Children's Fear Scale (CFS) based on both mother's and child's reports before painting and after the painting process is completed (half an hour after the first measurement).

Control group

No procedures other than routine procedures performed in the hospital will be applied to the children in this group

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Ready-Made Picture Template Painting Activity

The purpose of the study will be explained to the children and their parents before the painting process and verbal and written consent will be obtained from the parents who agree to participate in the study. The child will be asked to go to the child with the ready-made picture template and coloring pencils and color the given picture with the colors they want. Children's anxiety will be assessed using the Children's State Anxiety (CSA) and their fears will be assessed using the Children's Fear Scale (CFS) based on both mother's and child's reports before painting and after the painting process is completed (half an hour after the first measurement).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Children between the ages of 5-10,
• who are planned to be circumcised,
• who are not in pain, and
• whose parents approve of participating in the study will be included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Children with mental retardation,
• bleeding disorders, and
• traumatic experiences such as death and divorce in the last year will not be included in the study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 5 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Adiyaman University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Maksude YILDIRIM

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Harran University

Sanliurfa, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

HRÜ/24.21.05

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id