Increasing demands for hospitals to be more efficient mean that patients attending for an
operation are generally admitted on the day of surgery. As a result, healthcare professionals …

The common treatment for postoperative pain is prescription opioids. Yet, these drugs have
limited effect in preventing chronic pain from surgical intervention and have in part …

Background Non-pharmacological behavioural adjuncts have been suggested as efficient
safe means in reducing discomfort and adverse effects during medical procedures. We …

Study Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a behavioral preparation program on
reducing anxiety in children and their parents prior to elective surgery. Design: Cross …

An anxiety reduction protocol was developed and evaluated for routine use with neurology
and neuropsychiatry patients undergoing brain or spinal scans. Thirty five patients …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a single session of cognitive
restructuring in a sample of phobic dental patients. Fifty-two patients were randomly …

Purpose No study has investigated preoperative anxiety about spinal surgery under general
anesthesia. The purposes of this study were (1) to determine how many patients have …

Purpose To evaluate the effectivity of a combined intervention of information and
communication to reduce magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) anxiety using prolactin and …

PURPOSE: To assess how patients' underlying anxiety affects their experience of distress,
use of resources, and responsiveness toward nonpharmacologic analgesia adjunct …

Acute pain experiences in childhood, although common, can be difficult to manage, partly
because practitioners are not always made aware of the most recent studies validating …