ArticleEducational technology research and development : ETR & D2023
Effects of robot-assisted digital storytelling on hospitalized children's communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Effectiveness of Social Robots in Relieving Children's and Adolescents' Anxiety, Pain, Fear and Stress in Perioperative Nursing: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Socially Assistive Robots for Pain Management and Emotional Responses in Pediatric Hospital Care: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- The efficacy of socially assistive robots in improving children's pain and negative affectivity during needle-based invasive treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- The Impact of Robot-Assisted Digital Education on Prenatal Women's Health Literacy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of nursing management · 2025Trial
- Hospital-Based Robotic Applications in Nursing Practice: A Scoping Review.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2026Article
- Can social robots improve the hospital experience of children?Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2026Article
- Exploring multimodal collaborative storytelling with Pepper: a preliminary study with zero-shot LLMs.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
- Nursing Robots Can Reduce Nursing Workload in General Adult Wards: A Two-Phase Study.Journal of nursing management · 2025Article
- Integrating Robotics in Hospital and Home Education: A Systematic Review of Innovative Teaching Practices.Continuity in education · 2025Review
- The Promotion of Healthy Hydration Habits through Educational Robotics in University Students.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
This study proposed a robot-assisted digital storytelling approach to reduce hospitalized children's anxiety about intravenous injections and to improve their therapeutic communication and therapeutic engagement. In order to verify the effectiveness of the robot-assisted digital storytelling approach, a randomized controlled study was implemented. A total of 47 children from a regional hospital were randomly assigned to an experimental group (
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