Description Module

Description Module

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NCT ID: NCT04063020
Brief Summary: The objective of the study is to analyse : * Psychic experience of ear aplasia in children ; * the modalities of their psychic functioning ; * and the psychological repercussions of the plastic reconstruction surgery
Detailed Description: Children with an ear aplasia have various cares (ENT, speech therapy, hearing aids and tomodensiometry) up to the proposal of the plastic reconstruction surgery at 9/10 years old. The surgical technique used and preferred within Necker Hospital for these children is that of Saturo Nagata (1994). This surgical protocol takes place in two times, spaced by 9 months. This surgery does not allow hearing better since it targets is only a reconstruction of the pinna. To date, no research has highlighted the subjective experience of a child with an aplasia of ear and of what this surgery engages and demands on the side of psychological work. The purpose of this research is to interrogate the children's subjective experience with an unilateral ear aplasia and who wishes a plastic reconstruction surgery for their aplase ear.
Study: NCT04063020
Study Brief:
Protocol Section: NCT04063020