Recruiting

Magic Therapy

Sponsor:

Stony Brook University

Code:

NCT03308240

Conditions

Anxiety

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 5 - 16

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Magic Therapy

Study Details

Brief summary:

This study will assess the efficacy of magic therapy services in relieving pediatric patient anxiety and parent anxiety in an inpatient setting. It will also measure family satisfaction with child life services during the hospital visit and health professional opinions regarding such a therapy in an inpatient setting. The primary evaluation method will be through surveys. No prior investigations have studied using magic therapy as a primary tool to improve the psychological well-being of pediatric patients over the span of an inpatient hospitalization. Study and improvement of magic therapy services provides an evidence-based approach to improve pediatric patient psychological well-being, assist physicians in obtaining pediatric patient cooperation with procedures, and improving the hospitalization experience for the family of hospitalized pediatric patients.

Conditions

Anxiety

Study ID

NCT03308240

Start date

Jul 26, 2017

Status verified date

Oct, 2017

Completion date

Jul 26, 2018

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul 26, 2018

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 5 - 16

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • All 5-18 year-old patients that are admitted to the general pediatric inpatient pediatric unit at Stony Brook Children's
  • All Caregivers of patients admitted to the general pediatric inpatient pediatric unit at Stony Brook Children's
  • All medical professionals present on the pediatric inpatient unit at Stony Brook Children's during magic and child life service therapy.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients/caregivers who are not able to speak/read English
  • Patients under the age of 5 years, as the instruments to be used to measure anxiety have not been validated in this age group.

Study Design

Enrollment

260 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Magic Therapy Group

Medical student magicians who have completed MagicAid training will provide the therapy.

Three or four tricks will be performed per patient at the discretion of the magician to cater to patient age and cognition capabilities. Patients in the experimental group may be given the opportunity to learn a magic trick that has been presented to them as well.

no intervention: Standard Child Life Therapy Group

Stony Brook Child Life Specialists will provide standard therapies available to all patients, such as pet therapy, art therapy, music therapy.

Interventions

Magic Therapy

As described in the arm description

Primary outcome measure

  • To assess the therapeutic benefits of magic therapeutic intervention and impact on patient anxiety age 5-13 years. [ Time Frame: 1-2 days per patient during course of hospitalization ]
  • To assess the therapeutic benefits of magic therapeutic intervention and impact on pediatric patient anxiety age 5-16 years. [ Time Frame: 1-2 days per patient during course of hospitalization ]
  • To assess the therapeutic benefits of magic therapeutic intervention and impact on patient (age 5-16) and caregiver anxiety. [ Time Frame: 1-2 days per patient during course of hospitalization ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

Stony Brook University

Recruiting

Stony Brook, New York, United States, 11794-8111

Contacts

Maribeth B Chitkara, MD

631-444-2648maribeth.chitkara@stonybrookmedicine.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Stony Brook University

Last update posted

Oct 12, 2017

Last verified

Oct, 2017

Keywords

  • Magic
  • Anxiety
  • Pediatric

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Stony Brook University on 2017-10-12.