ArticlePediatric reports2019
The impact of medical clowns exposure over postoperative pain and anxiety in children and caregivers: An Israeli experience.
Article in Pediatric reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05257096 (Can Medical Clowns Prevent the Usage of Sedation During the Performance of EEG in Young Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Can Medical Clowns Prevent the Usage of Sedation During the Performance of EEG in Young Children
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clown care in the clinical nursing of children: a meta-analysis and systematic review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness of hospital clowns for symptom management in paediatrics: systematic review of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2020Pooled it
- The beneficial effect of medical clowns on performance of EEG in young children: a randomized controlled study.European journal of pediatrics · 2022Trial
- Effects of clowning on anxiety, stress, pain, and hormonal markers in paediatric patients.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- "I made you a small room in my heart": how therapeutic clowns meet the needs of older adults in nursing homes.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023Article
- Motivations and Personal Traits Can Predict Self-Efficacy of the Clown Therapist: A Descriptive Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A feasibility study of the use of medical clowns as hand-hygiene promoters in hospitals.PloS one · 2022Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
While postoperative pain management was shown to reduce unwanted physiological and emotional outcomes, pediatric postoperative pain management remains suboptimal. Medical-clowns were shown to be beneficial in many medical contexts including reduction of stress, anxiety and pain. This study was set to assess the effectiveness of medical-clowns on pediatric postoperative pain reduction. Children age 4 or above, planned for elective hernia repair surgery were recruited. Children were randomly divided to a control or medicalclown escorted groups. Demographical and clinical data were collected using questionnaires and electronic sheets. Children escorted by clowns reported lower levels of pain upon admittance, discharge and 12- hours post-surgery. Statistically significant reduction of parental distress and significantly higher serum cortisol levels were observed in the clown-therapy group. Although small, our study supports the possibility that preoperative medical-clown therapy might be a cheap, safe and yet beneficial method for postoperative pain reduction.
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