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Autoria: | Fernandes, S. Arriaga, P. Esteves, F. |
Data: | 2015 |
Título próprio: | Using an educational multimedia application to prepare children for outpatient surgeries |
Volume: | 30 |
Número: | 12 |
Paginação: | 1190 - 1200 |
ISSN: | 1041-0236 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.1080/10410236.2014.896446 |
Resumo: | Surgery is a highly stressful event for children and caregivers. Extensive effort has been made to improve preoperative care in order to alleviate worry about the surgical procedure itself. This study tested the impact of an educational multimedia intervention on the cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses of children undergoing surgery, as well as on parental state anxiety. Children (n = 90) were assigned to three different groups: an educational multimedia intervention (experimental group), an entertainment video game intervention (comparison group), and a control group (no intervention). Children who received the educational multimedia intervention reported lower level of worries about hospitalization, medical procedures, illness, and negative consequences than those in the control and in the comparison groups. Parental state anxiety was also lower in the both the educational and the entertainment video game interventions compared to the control group. These findings suggest that providing information to children regarding medical procedures and hospital rules and routines is important to reduce their preoperative worries, and also relevant for parental anxiety. |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso Aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | CIS-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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Using an educational multimedia application.pdf | Pós-print | 612,24 kB | Adobe PDF | Ver/Abrir |
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