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Evaluation of the Effect of the Presence Of Clowns on Pain and Anxiety Seen During Injections Botulinum Toxin in Child
In Brief
An observational study evaluating distraction for Cerebral Palsy and Muscle Hypertonia. Completed, enrolled 80 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
In children requiring botulinum toxin injections, improving supervisory procedures of injection sessions to reduce pain and improve the experience of this invasive procedure is needed. The intervention of medical clowns seems very interesting in this goal, but its effectiveness has not been proven within the botulinum toxin injections. The objective of the study is to evaluate in terms of profit the presence or absence of clowns during a session of botulinum toxins by determining their impact on pain and anxiety felt among children and their carers
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Interventions
Children will all benefit toxin injections with the same protocol. Only the distraction will be different during the session: either the children will have a distraction realized by the team of clowns / or children will benefit a classic distraction (TV, music, ...)