Resources
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Here you can find useful links, articles and information about Anxiety, Procedural Anxiety, and Children.
Useful Links
Relevant Articles
Listed below are a number of relevant openly available research papers we feel are worthy of attention. (Click on top of each article’s title to access freely to the full document)
- The Management of Preoperative Anxiety in Children: An Update
- Preoperative Preparation Programs in Children: A Comparative Examination
- Family-centered Preparation for Surgery Improves Perioperative Outcomes in Children
- Analysing a family-centred preoperative intervention programme: a dismantling approach
- Healthcare Provider and Parent Behavior and Children’s Coping and Distress at Anesthesia Induction
- Changing Healthcare Providers’ Behavior during Pediatric Inductions with an Empirically-based Intervention
- Children’s Desire for Perioperative Information
Our E-Book
Have a look at our POEMS e-book that explores in a simple and fun way what is Procedural & Perioperative Anxiety in children. The book illustrates how we can support and help these children when they come in contact with any healthcare system.
Paediatric Hypnosis articles
The below research papers study the use of hypnosis within a paediatric context.
(Click on top of each article’s title to access freely to the full document)
- - The involvement and autonomy of young children undergoing elective paediatric cardiac surgery: a qualitative study
- The effect of hypnotherapy on the hospital anxiety in three children with cancer: A case report
- Somatic Cough Syndrome (Previously Referred to as Psychogenic Cough) and Tic Cough (Previously Referred to as Habit Cough) in Adults and Children
- Integration of hypnosis into pediatric palliative care
- - Individual Differences in Children's Suggestibility: An Updated Review
- Hypnosis, anesthesia, pain management, and preparation for medical procedures
- Hypnosis to Reduce Distress in Children Undergoing Anorectal Manometry: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial
- Hypnosis and Pain in Children
- - How Suggestible Are Preschool Children? Cognitive and Social Factors
- Clinical Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents—What? Why? How?: Origins, Applications, and Efficacy
Encyclopaediatrica of Jokes
This book is a catalogue of usable jokes intended to make children smile and adults weep.
