Use of Incentives for Stressful Medical Procedures
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Official title
Use of Incentives for Children Undergoing Stressful Medical Procedures
Brief summary
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The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the use of incentives in pediatric patients requiring medical procedures. The main questions it aims to answer are: Are incentives effective at reducing pediatric anxiety for medical procedures? What is the best way to use incentives with pediatric populations requiring medical procedures? Participants will be provided support in preparation for their procedure and during the procedure by a child life specialist and might receive an incentive prize after their procedure. Participants distress levels during the procedure will be observed and they will be asked to rate their anxiety on a visual analog scale. Researchers will compare the anxiety of those who did or did not receive an incentive after their procedure to see if incentives reduced procedural anxiety.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT06254898
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 186 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Child life standard of care Behavioral
- Child life standard of care + incentives provided with conditional agreement. Behavioral
- Child life standard of care + incentive provided unconditionally. Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 6 Years to 17 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 1, 2023
- Primary completion
- Jun 7, 2026
- Completion
- Jun 7, 2026
- Last update posted
- Jul 12, 2026
2023 – 2026
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 3
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz | Aurora | Colorado | 80045 | — |
| Children's Hospital Colorado North Campus | Broomfield | Colorado | 80023 | — |
| Children's Hospital Colorado South Campus | Highlands Ranch | Colorado | 80129 | — |
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- Last update posted Jul 12, 2026 · Synced Sep 3, 2026
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