Trial reportFrontiers in public health2021
To the Operating Room! Positive Effects of a Healthcare Clown Intervention on Children Undergoing Surgery.
Trial report in Frontiers in public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Clown care in the clinical nursing of children: a meta-analysis and systematic review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Clowning in care: long-term effectiveness of clown visits on residents' affect, resilience, sleep quality and functionality.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of a multicomponent perioperative preparation programme incorporating culturally familiar clown-themed components for alleviating preoperative anxiety in preschool children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Pediatric Pain Management: An Observational Study on Nurses' Knowledge of Non-Pharmacological Techniques.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Short-term effects of clown visits in child and adolescent psychiatric care: a pilot study on patient stress and mood outcomes and staff evaluations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Motivations and Personal Traits Can Predict Self-Efficacy of the Clown Therapist: A Descriptive Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Effects of clown visits on stress and mood in children and adolescents in psychiatric care-Protocol for a pilot study.PloS one · 2022Article
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3 authors.
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Abstract
In the present study we examined the positive effects of a healthcare clown intervention on children undergoing surgeries, and the role parent-child relationships may play in their effectiveness. Children between 5 and 12 years, who were scheduled to undergo elective surgical procedures in a large university hospital, were randomly assigned to an intervention group (IG;
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