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Educational intervention through a comic book for preoperative anxiety in children, adolescents, and their parents: A randomized clinical trial by Marla Andréia Garcia De Avila; Rafaela Aparecida Prata; Francine Letícia Da Silva Jacob; Francisca Miriam De Oliveira Nóbrega; Gabriela Ribeiro De Barros; Beatriz Mayumi Gonsales Sugiura is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: Reducing preoperative anxiety can help optimize surgical care. ## Aim: To analyze the effectiveness of verbal guidance by nurses versus verbal guidance combined with a comic book on preoperative anxiety in children and their parents. ## Methods: We conducted a randomized parallel, two-group controlled clinical trial in the pediatric ward and a blinded anxiety assessment in the operating room of a brazilian hospital. individuals aged 6-14 years undergoing surgical procedures of up to 4 h for the first time were included in the study. parents who were adults, literate, and able to communicate verbally were included. the primary outcome was the children's anxiety, measured by the children anxiety questionnaire (caq), visual analog scale (vas), and the modified yale preoperative anxiety scale (mypas); the secondary outcome was the parents' anxiety, assessed by the hamilton anxiety rating scale. participants were divided into the intervention (ig; n = 60) and control (cg; n = 60) groups. ## Findings: The two groups were homogeneous. the median age of the children was 8 years. no significant differences were observed in the caq and vas scores between the two assessment tim
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- Author
- Marla Andréia Garcia De Avila; Rafaela Aparecida Prata; Francine Letícia Da Silva Jacob; Francisca Miriam De Oliveira Nóbrega; Gabriela Ribeiro De Barros; Beatriz Mayumi Gonsales Sugiura
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)