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Effects of Advance Exposure to an Animated Surgery-Related Picture Book on Preoperative Anxiety and Anesthesia Induction in Preschool Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2021-11-03
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<h4>Background: </h4> Our aim was to investigate whether early surgical preparation by reading an animated picture book about procedure-related events could reduce the preoperative anxiety in preschoolers. <h4>Methods: </h4>: 131 patients, aged 3-6 years and underwent elective minor surgery were randomized either to a control or a picture book group. Both groups received general information about surgery and anest...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 69b410d1-0cda-57d1-b1f5-b22af111d69b
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1012258/v1
