ArticleJournal of education and health promotion2022
Effect of video games on preoperative anxiety in 3- to-6-year-old of a sample of Iranian children undergoing elective surgery.
Article in Journal of education and health promotion, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07128056 (Effect of Mobile Phone Video Games on Preoperative Anxiety and Postoperative Pain in Children Undergoing Elective Surgery), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.
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Effect of Mobile Phone Video Games on Preoperative Anxiety and Postoperative Pain in Children Undergoing Elective Surgery
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- Audiovisual technology intervention for reducing preoperative anxiety in children undergoing general anesthesia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Review
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backgroundAs pediatric surgeries are rising and current methods to reduce perioperative anxiety are lacking in preschool children. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of video games on preoperative anxiety in 3- to-6-year old of a sample of Iranian children undergoing elective surgery children. MATERIALS AND
methodsIn the current quasi-experimental pretest posttest design, after standard translation, the modified Yale preoperative anxiety scale was administered to 102 children undergoing surgery from December 2016 to August 2017 in Kermanshah, Iran. Children are assigned to an intervention or control group. Each child's anxiety was measured at two points at the time of arrival and after waiting for 20 min in the holding area. Data were analyzed by SPSS, version 22. The Chi-square, independent
resultsThere was no significant difference between the mean anxieties in control group (42.58 ± 18.54) and intervention group (46.11 ± 14.09) before the game (
conclusionFindings of the present study suggest that approved video game by experts to decrease mean preoperative anxiety in 3- to-6-year-old children. Therefore, video games recommended to be implemented at the preventive level in hospital.
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