A randomized trial of robot-based distraction to reduce children’s distress and pain during intravenous insertion in the emergency department

Ali, Samina; Manaloor, Robin; Ma, Keon; Sivakumar, Mithra; Beran, Tanya; Scott, Shannon D.; Vandermeer, Ben; Beirnes, Natasha; Graham, Timothy A.D.; Curtis, Sarah; Jou, Hsing; Hartling, Lisa

doi:10.1007/s43678-020-00023-5

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“…These innovative projects are comparable to studies by Beran and colleagues with pediatric patients undergoing a variety of painful medical procedures, e.g., [ 28 , 29 , 30 ], and children with cancer [ 31 ]. The data collected in the above studies are encouraging, albeit that for the time being they concern a limited number of subjects and are thus not amenable to statistical generalization.…”

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confidence: 65%

Play-Based Activities with a CoderBot Robot on a Pediatric Ward: A Case Study

2022

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Being hospitalized is a threatening and stressful experience for many children. From a psychological point of view, children may experience increased feelings of anxiety and fear that can negatively influence their behavioral, cognitive, and emotional outcomes. To mitigate such adverse effects on children’s mental health and well-being, interventions that might contribute to protecting the emotional domain of hospitalized children are welcome. The present case study of a single-setting intervention allowed us to evaluate the impact, on children admitted to a pediatric short-term recovery ward (N = 61), of participating in play-based activities with a CoderBot robot. The methodology spanned multiple data sources (children, parents, nurses), field observation, and a sequential (quantitative–qualitative) mixed-method approach to data analysis. We found that robot-based activities are associated with enhanced well-being (particularly positive emotions). Both the participating children and their caregivers reported that the activity was enjoyable and interesting, especially thanks to its technologically innovative nature. We critically discuss these positive findings in relation to the strengths of our pilot study, as well as its contextual and methodological limitations, and outline possible future lines of development for this kind of project.

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confidence: 65%

Play-Based Activities with a CoderBot Robot on a Pediatric Ward: A Case Study

2022

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“…In total, 158 children participated in our study, making this one of the largest experiments with social robots to mitigate pain and anxiety for children during blood collection. To compare, [20] had N = 57; [23] included N = 86; and [24] had a sample size of N = 139. Furthermore, the real-life field setting of our study ensured a high level of ecological validity [51].…”

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“…There is growing support in the literature for using social robots as a distraction technique during needle proceedings, such as intravenous insertion (IVI). Children who received a social robot-based distraction in addition to standard care during IVI showed a statistically significant reduction in distress, compared to those who only received standard care [23]. Other studies that applied social robot interactions during vaccinations also report on children showing significantly less pain and distress [20].…”

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Mitigating Children’s Pain and Anxiety during Blood Draw Using Social Robots

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Young pediatric patients who undergo venipuncture or capillary blood sampling often experience high levels of pain and anxiety. This often results in distressed young patients and their parents, increased treatment times, and a higher workload for healthcare professionals. Social robots are a new and promising tool to mitigate children’s pain and anxiety. This study aims to purposefully design and test a social robot for mitigating stress and anxiety during blood draw of children. We first programmed a social robot based on the requirements expressed by experienced healthcare professionals during focus group sessions. Next, we designed a randomized controlled experiment in which the social robot was applied as a distraction method to measure its capacity to mitigate pain and anxiety in children during blood draw in a children’s hospital setting. Children who interacted with the robot showed significantly lower levels of anxiety before actual blood collection, compared to children who received regular medical treatment. Children in the middle classes of primary school (aged 6–9) seemed especially sensitive to the robot’s ability to mitigate pain and anxiety before blood draw. Children’s parents overall expressed strong positive attitudes toward the use and effectiveness of the social robot for mitigating pain and anxiety. The results of this study demonstrate that social robots can be considered a new and effective tool for lowering children’s anxiety prior to the distressing medical procedure of blood collection.

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“…Literature [9] proposed the characteristics of children's products in the 020 mode and introduced the commercialized 020 mode into the design of children's interactive products. Literature [10] proposed to explain the app interaction strategy of early childhood education in the three parts of information architecture, information presentation, and information efficiency.…”

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Artificial Intelligence Application in the Design of Children's Service Robot Based on Context Perception

Gao

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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In the era of artificial intelligence, children's service robots will surely become one of the conventional hardware. This paper combines artificial intelligence technology and the space algorithm to design the child service robot system, improves the situational space perception algorithm, and applies the algorithm to the robot system. Moreover, this paper constructs the system structure of the children's service robot according to the actual needs and obtains the system function modules. In addition, this paper constructs a child service robot based on context perception and verifies the performance of the robot system. Finally, this paper combines the simulation experiment to carry out the interactive effect of the robot system and the service effect to children and investigates the satisfaction of parents. Through experimental research, it can be seen that the child service robot system based on situational awareness constructed in this paper has good service effects, can effectively take care of children, and has high parent satisfaction.

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A randomized trial of robot-based distraction to reduce children’s distress and pain during intravenous insertion in the emergency department

Cited by 28 publications

References 28 publications

Play-Based Activities with a CoderBot Robot on a Pediatric Ward: A Case Study

Play-Based Activities with a CoderBot Robot on a Pediatric Ward: A Case Study

Mitigating Children’s Pain and Anxiety during Blood Draw Using Social Robots

Artificial Intelligence Application in the Design of Children's Service Robot Based on Context Perception

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