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ArticlePediatric reports2016

Salivary Cortisol Levels: The Importance of Clown Doctors to Reduce Stress.

Flávia G Saliba, Natanael S Adiwardana, Eliane U Uehara, Renata N Silvestre, Victor V Leite, Francisca T V Faleiros, Flávia H P Padovani, Juliana I F De Gobbi

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Article in Pediatric reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03537859 (Effect of Augmented Reality Books on Cortisol Levels in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03537859 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

Effect of Augmented Reality Books on Cortisol Levels in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients: a Cross-over Study.

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversidad Peruana Cayetano HerediaRan2018 to 2019Enrolled29ConditionsHospitalized ChildArmsAugmented Reality, Non Augmented Reality
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Flávia G SalibaDepartment of Pediatrics, Psychology and Psychiatry, Medical School of Botucatu, São Paulo State University , Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Natanael S AdiwardanaDepartment of Pediatrics, Psychology and Psychiatry, Medical School of Botucatu, São Paulo State University , Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Eliane U UeharaDepartment of Pediatrics, Psychology and Psychiatry, Medical School of Botucatu, São Paulo State University , Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Renata N SilvestreDepartment of Pediatrics, Psychology and Psychiatry, Medical School of Botucatu, São Paulo State University , Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Victor V LeiteDepartment of Pediatrics, Psychology and Psychiatry, Medical School of Botucatu, São Paulo State University , Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Francisca T V FaleirosDepartment of Pediatrics, Psychology and Psychiatry, Medical School of Botucatu, São Paulo State University , Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Flávia H P PadovaniDepartment of Neurology, Psychology and Psychiatry, Medical School of Botucatu, São Paulo State University , Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Juliana I F De GobbiDepartment of Physiology, Institute of Bioscience, São Paulo State University , Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study was designed to correlate entertainment of clown-doctors (CD) activities on hospitalized children and aphysiological bio-marker. For this purpose we collected saliva samples and verified children satisfaction with these activities by using a visual analog scale (VAS). Children from 6 to 7 years-old, with diagnosis of any acute pathology, interned in the Pediatric Ward of the Botucatu Medical School Hospital (São Paulo, Brazil) were interviewed. Two groups were taken into consideration: lunchCD and dinnerCD. The following protocol was applied in each group (lunch and dinner): collection of the first saliva sample and presentation of VAS prior to CD activities, followed by collection of a second saliva sample and another VAS assessment after CD activities. The salivary cortisol was reduced in both groups comparing the first saliva sample. The satisfaction of the intervention was evident for lunchCD. The CD intervention is effective in decreasing an important physiological biomarker of stress factor, cortisol, in hospitalized children, been effective for the healing process.

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bio-marker of stressclowns doctorsSalivary cortisolvisual analog scale

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PMID27114816
PMCPMC4821216
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