The intervention group
strabismus, pain
STRABISMUS
The researchers prepared the preoperative educational information in the form of a comic booklet (S-Fig. 1), a video (S-Video), and an interactive coloring book (S-Fig. 2). The comic booklet was entitled “I’m not afraid of surgery and anesthesia”, which included admission registration, preoperative preparation, fasting, anesthesia procedures, pain management, and post-anesthesia recovery procedures. The children were allowed to choose the intervention method according to their interests, and the researchers made the content of the comic booklet into a ten-minute animated video entitled “I’m not afraid of surgery and anesthesia”. The interactive coloring game book covered admission, preoperative examination, strabismus surgery, and recovery procedures.The first intervention stage was implemented in the ophthalmology clinic. The researchers distributed the comic booklets to the children and their parents, guided them to read the comic booklets, and then showed them the video. After that, they were given interactive coloring books to read while researchers gave them explanations about the surgical and recovery procedures, and this intervention lasted for aproximately 15–30 min.The second intervention stage was implemented before hospital admission, during which the children and their parents were required to read the comic booklets or watch the video at home at least twice. The intervention was considered a success when the children and their parents read the comic booklets and/or watched the video at least twice and the children completed the interactive coloring book games; otherwise, the intervention was considered a failure and the cases involved were excluded from the study.